Lisa Wassmann

Lisa Wassmann photographs people and catches them actual—no theme, no photographer’s trick, just someone being there and her watching clearly. Beautiful people, wrecked people, strange people. She treats them all the same: genuine attention, no bullshit.

There’s something about the directness of her work. She’s not making a point about anything or trying to look a certain way as a photographer. She’s just watching, clearly, and trusting that to mean something. That’s rare.

I think about that in my own practice—specificity, that unflinching eye. Making something that feels like it could only be this one thing. Her photographs have that. They don’t perform ’photograph.’ They just catch what actually happened.

She’s from Berlin, where there’s a lot of photography these days, but her work is the kind that actually matters to me.