For his series "Agfacolor", Carsten Becker focuses on moments that make it impossible for photographs to disguise their voice. The artist presents image sections from color photos he discovered in archives, taken by soldiers of German propaganda troops. He closes in on details and the enhancement lends an aesthetic quality to the ageing marks, the tinting and scratches of the film material – a quality beyond the original photographer’s control.

Carsten Becker’s works explore absence and lost image worlds. By reconstructing colors and selecting specific sections of images, he makes the past experienceable again, focusing on the origin and context of these images rather than the motifs themselves.