SNOWLAND

A lifelong connection to photography runs in his family, with a grandmother who was a passionate amateur behind the lens, and a father immersed in visual marketing. But it wasn’t until Jochen shared his photos with childhood friend and world-renowned artist Andreas Gursky that something clicked. Encouraged to follow his visual instincts, he returned to photography with fresh purpose and developed a style uniquely his own.

Jochen’s work is bold, immersive, and unmistakably colourful. His signature CMPB technique—changing images through controlled colour manipulation while preserving the integrity of the subject—transforms ordinary scenes into something both abstract and contemplative.

Rather than telling linear stories, Jochen is concerned with visual impact, with how colour and form can elevate the everyday and sharpen perception.

Beyond his photographic process, Jochen sees art—of all kinds—as a communicative act. “With my unique photographic style by changing colours, I like to raise the bar for more attention to what can be seen in an object,” he says. That philosophy radiates through his visual practice. In a world saturated with images, Jochen invites us to slow down, to really look—and to feel.

What draws you to the arts?

Art is a way of communication – with my unique photographic style by changing colours, I like to raise the bar for more attention to what can be seen in an object.

What do you like best about this project?

How the manipulation of the underlying colour creates a striking effect.

His newest series, Snowland, perfectly illustrates this approach. These surreal winter vistas were captured with partial infrared filtering, highlighting the essence of snow and frost in unexpected hues. Trees blush pink against electric blue landscapes. Fields of snow take on sculptural softness. What should feel cold becomes strangely warm, inviting, dreamlike. The post-processed infrared effect imbues these images with a painterly abstraction, where mood overtakes realism and colour becomes atmosphere.

As Jochen himself puts it: “Colour creates atmosphere.” And that atmosphere is central to Snowland’s quiet power. It’s not about place—it’s about perception. It’s not about documentation—it’s about sensation. This is art that doesn’t ask for narrative but invites the viewer into altered states of seeing.

The images from Jochen’s Snowland series transport us into an altered reality where winter becomes a surreal spectacle. In one photograph, snow-covered hills ripple like frozen waves, interrupted by a vivid artery of candy-floss pink trees that carve an organic line through the structured landscape.

In another, a majestic alpine panorama is rendered uncanny by infrared treatment: where we would expect muted winter tones, we are met instead with electric rose-hued forests that cascade down towards icy valleys, flanked by crystalline peaks under a bold cobalt sky. A quiet orchard is engulfed in a searing spectrum of scarlet and crimson, the tree trunks slicing upward like silhouettes against a molten backdrop. The snow beneath glows a muted gold, so the scene feels less like a winter grove than an infrared reverie where warmth radiates from a place that should be cold.

These dreamlike inversions are achieved through Jochen’s partial use of infrared filters, combined with his self-developed CMPB technique—a process of colour manipulation that does not distort the underlying subject but transforms how we perceive it. His Snowland images are not meant to document reality, but to elevate it—prompting us to look twice, to feel more, and to wonder.