Balance Studies – Photography for Everyone

Balance Studies. Photography for Everyone is a conceptual photo book based on a manual proposed by Lucia Moholy in 1933. She was forced to emigrate and was unable to complete her instruction book. With this publication, Caroline Heider explicitly places herself in the long tradition of instruction manuals in which female photographers are advised not only to master the camera and lighting, but above all image composition, i.e.: they should learn to see. At the same time, as a female author, she breaks with tradition, as this type of guidebook literature is almost exclusively written from a male perspective.


Caroline Heider, Department of Applied Photography & Time-Based Media, University of Applied Arts Vienna