Stephan Tobias | Desklight Dialogue 1
photo, 40 x 40 cm, 2022, in cooperation with andrew spiteri

Any creation starts with light.


Light is alive and makes us see. On a weekend trip to Leipzig I ended up inviting Andrew to my Airbnb. We playfully started to explore the opportunities of interaction and were both thrilled by this old Bauhaus style lamp we found there, and by its warm glow of light in contrast to the daylight.

The older I become the more I am impressed by the beautiful complexity of seemingly simple things.

Marco’s friend Kathy owns a beautiful villa from the 1700s on the island of Ischia. The upper floor is uninhabited but we were allowed to take pictures there, to document our common search of beautiful light.

I always tell my models to turn their head towards the light.

In art you can interact with light, as if it were your partner in a dialogue.