In Germany there are only a few schools where photography was taught in a non-commercial, artistic way. The school of design at the Folkwang School at Essen was such a place, but it didn’t become as influential as the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts (Becher class) in which the German tradition of 1920’s Neue Sachlichkeit was taken seriously and used as the base for a new approach to Photography.

Neue Sachlichkeit, which rejected the self-conscious sentimentality of late Romanticism and the emotional agitation of expressionism, brought a sharply focused, documentary quality to the photographic art where previously the self-consciously poetic had held sway.

Luminos Lint has an online exhibition that showcases the work of three contemporary German Photographers-----Florian Beckers, Gudrun Kemsa and Kris Scholz--- who have studied either in Essen (Beckers) or in Düsseldorf (Kemsa, Scholz).

Modern apartments in a city that are photographed at night. Despite the photographs in this series being "on location" the work is less in the genre of street photography---eg., the work of Helen Leavitt in New York---and more architectural. However, if Kemsa is not concerned with documentation or social reporting, this work is not in the tradition of architectural photography either. It is more surreal and more concerned with the construction of the picture plane.

Kemsa has published a book entitled Moving Images: Photographs by Gudrun Kemsa but I do not know anything about this text other than it consists of the work of four series.

The location for this image is the tourist enclave in the coastal town of Adeje in Spain. It is represented as an abandoned terrain at night, after the sun has gone. The mood or atmosphere is one of emptiness .