Sousedé—the Czech word for neighbours—gives title to Jochen Lempert’s exhibition at Fotograf Gallery. Rather than placing humans at the centre, Lempert invites us to perceive our living environment as a habitat shared by humans and other living beings, a shared ecology of presences, where encounters often remain fleeting, unnoticed, or hidden in plain sight.

Drawing on his background in biology, Lempert approaches photography as a form of attentive observation. His analogue black-and-white photographs trace subtle correspondences between animals, plants, people, and the environments they inhabit. Presented as unframed prints and open-ended sequences, the images unfold less as individual works than as a delicate constellation of relations.

Sousedé is also an invitation to reflect on the act of seeing itself. Lempert’s photographs suggest that looking is never a one-sided act, but a reciprocal encounter shaped by different forms of attention and presence. Through a photographic language that is at once precise and poetic, Lempert makes visible the negotiations of coexistence that shape everyday life, opening a space for an interspecies subjectivity.

Curator: Anna Voswinckel

Venue: Fotograf Zone Gallery