In his work, Sebastian Riemer challenges the photographic medium’s claims to objectivity, longevity and documentary value. In his individual images and series, which he has been developing continuously since 2006, he has recently drawn upon found photographs, amongst other things, as part of a practice he terms ‘artistic archaeology’. These source images, which Riemer describes as ‘photographic ruins’, are often greatly enlarged and, through high-resolution technical adjustments to their parameters, transferred from their original context into new contexts of viewing. His artistic approach facilitates an examination of the medium of the image that is at once visual-studies-based, media-reflective and aesthetic.