Not things. Their echo.

A visual investigation into the persistence of twentieth-century ideological legacies — at a time when authoritarian forms re-emerge in familiar shapes.

2022 - ongoing

A world in suspension — a present already saturated with its own potential disappearance. Published as Figures d'un monde en sursis (L'Harmattan, 2018).

2008 - 2018
2024 - ongoing

A constellation of photographic fragments exploring the echoes between memory, space, and presence.

2016 - ongoing

The fragile persistence of a world living under the constant shadow of its own end.

Matthias Koch (b. 1964) is a German photographer based in France. He develops long-term bodies of work in which images address memory, transmission, and the fractures of the present. — L'Harmattan · Éditions du Tanargue · Festival Chambre07