Michael Knorr

Therapeut und Fotograf

Sichtbar machen, was nicht gesehen wird

und zeigen

wie anders geschaut werden kann...

In meinen Fotobänden und den Buchprojekten steht der Mensch im Zusammenspiel mit der Natur, seinen Möglichkeiten und Grenzen, stets die Hauptrolle. Ich bin nicht überwiegend an Fototechnik interessiert, sondern an der Aussage. Manchmal demontiere ich sogar die Perfektion der Technik.

Mit der Kamera auf die Machtvollen zu schauen, die Kamera als Korrektiv einzusetzen und sich dabei der eigenen Macht bewusst zu sein oder zu werden, das ist mein Weg.

Der Psychotherapeut in mir ist mein Kameraassistent.

Ausstellung meiner Bilder der Bilderreihe ZEN Bilder und METAMORPHOSE

Der Kunstmarkt findet am 09.08.2026 von 11 bis 19 Uhr im Schlosspark in Bad Kreuznach statt.

Sie können meine Werke und Kunstpostkarten an diesem Tag käuflich erwerben.

Aufruf zum Mitmachen beim Kunst-Projekt Erde hüten

Haltet unsere Erde in euren Armen – eine einfache, fürsorgliche Geste, die verbindet. Die Erde wird nicht getragen, weil sie uns gehört. Sie wird gehalten, weil wir ihr angehören. Wenn ihr euch von dieser Idee angesprochen fühlt, beteiligt euch am offenen, wachsenden Projekt. Daraus soll eine große Ausstellung werden.

So geht’s:

Macht ein Foto, handy oder Kamera, in dem ihr die Erde im Arm haltet. Schaut in die Kamera, oder schaut einfach ins Bild hinein.
Sendet das Foto mit eurem Vornamen und Ort (Land, Region oder Stadt) an michael@knorr-vieten.de.
Der Fotograf Michael Knorr sammelt in diesem Kunst-Projekt Bilder aus aller Welt – daraus entsteht eine gemeinsame, globale Bildsprache der Fürsorge für diese Welt.

Erde hüten ist eine Einladung, Verantwortung sichtbar zu machen – wo wir aufhören, die Erde als Kulisse zu betrachten, als Kapitalanlage oder als optimales Ausschöpfungspotential, und wir sie wieder als Gegenüber erkennen. Wo aus einer Handvoll Erde eine Begegnung wird – still, verletzlich und voller Zukunft. Und vielleicht wird aus vielen solcher Begegnungen ein gemeinsames Bild der Welt: gehalten von den Armen der Menschen, die auf ihr leben.

Idee: www.foto-knorr.de

0170-93 93 858

Art Project: Tending the Earth
by Michael Knorr

Tending the Earth Be part of an art installation

There are images that do not show but remember. Not the past, but something we carry inside us. Tending the Earth is a photographic project about this memory — about our quiet, often forgotten connection to the Earth.

The images depict the same simple gesture: holding the Earth in the arms. Not a heroic pose, not possession, but a moment of care. The Earth is not carried because it belongs to us. It is held because we belong to it. The person in the image looks at the viewer.

The project nods to the poetic visual language of Lois Weinberger, whose work gives landscape and the inconspicuous its own dignity, in line with his understanding of not mastering nature but listening to it. In a caring gesture toward the Earth, I invite you to sense nature as a miracle and to connect with it, to become a miracle yourself. At the same time, I am reminded of Joseph Beuys, whose project 7000 Eichen was understood as a living intervention in the future — a reminder to not only think about responsibility but to plant it.

In my works, I continually offer transitions; boundaries do not appear as clear lines but are blurred, ambiguous, and point to the limiting habits of our gaze. Dreaming (my work book: Dreaming Beyond Boundaries) means for me giving yourself to them and then surpassing them — not by escape, but by seeing differently. Tending the Earth follows this idea: photography becomes a place where closeness arises because we can enter into a relationship. Between human and landscape. Between hand and ground. Between memory and hope.

The images were created in quiet landscapes, in fields, at forest edges, in gardens, or in places whose stories lie hidden in the soil. Hands cradle the Earth as if holding something precious and at the same time fragile. Faces step back and simply look at the viewer, open to what may come from it. The gesture of holding becomes the actual portrait. It speaks of care rather than possession, of connection rather than control.

The project may grow: But Tending the Earth is not meant as a completed work of my person. It is intended as an open, evolving project — an invitation to become part of a shared visual language. I invite people from different regions, landscapes, and countries to create their own image: with the soil of their homeland, their place of life, or a place with which they feel a connection, always the same simple gesture — holding the Earth in the arm. Each image remains unique, because every hand tells a different story and every ground carries its own memory.

My wish is that, over time, a worldwide mosaic of photographs will accumulate. Different soils, different people, different cultures, connected by the same stance of care. From many individual images grows a joint image of our responsibility. Please send the photos to me, the author of the idea. I collect and archive these images with the first name of the person and the country, region, or city.

Please send these images to: michael@knorr-vieten.de / 0170-93 93 858

Tanja, Garten Rheinhessische Schweiz

Projekt: Erde hüten

All photographs created will eventually be brought together in a single exhibition. The exhibition will not only show the work of a photographer but the visible trace of a shared idea.

Each photograph stands for a place and, at the same time, for the awareness that all places are part of the same Earth. The diversity of landscapes and people makes the unity of our living space tangible.

Earth is both origin and future. It preserves traces of past lives and carries the promise of what can grow. Those who hold the Earth hold not only dust but time. Not only matter but memory and life. Perhaps also hope.

Perhaps tending begins exactly where we stop seeing the Earth as a backdrop, as a capital asset, or as optimal exploitation potential, and recognize it again as a counterpart. Where a handful of Earth becomes an encounter — quiet, vulnerable, and full of future. And perhaps from many such encounters, a common image of the world arises: held by the arms of people who live on it.

Tending the Earth: Tanja - Garden Rheinhessische Schweiz-Germany

How it works:

Take a photo in which you hold the Earth in your arms. Look at the camera, or simply into the image.
Send the photo with your first name and place (country, region, or city) to michael@knorr-vieten.de or 0170-93 93 858
Photographer Michael Knorr collects images from around the world for this art project — from them, a shared, global visual language of care for this world will emerge in an exhibition