Museum's watch

One of my favorite photography themes are guardians in museums. For many reasons. They have a strange job. They are in representative places where thousands go to watch and they yet remain unseen. They feel unwatched. I can take pictures of them from shortest distance and they don't mind as they think it is all about the exhibits.

Palace of Ludwigsburg, Porcelain Museum

Some are proud of what they do. They naturally adapt to the weird artifacts surrounding them - they correspond with them. And they mostly do it unknowingly.

This guy in the ceremonial room of Austrian National Library in Hofburg, Vienna, was walking in circle around the statue. Over and over again.

Mirroring: A guardian pictured through Damien Hirst's artwork in Hamburger Kunsthalle

Becoming a part of artwork: a guardian of Guernica, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid

To the left: a guardian in Saint Petersburg's Eremitage, strict watch: Russian museum guardians must be trained by the military, museum in Russia is no place of fun. However, Eremitage's staff was far not that strict as Peterhof's "crew from gulag".

Feeling small? Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History

Once a splendid residence of Polish aristocracy, is Lancut in South East Poland apart of the palace an its  immense coach collection, quite dozy and provincial. Guardians on a cigarette break.

Berlin's museum Hamburger Bahnhof: Becoming alike.

Berlin's museum Hamburger Bahnhof: Who is watching over who?

Berlin's museum Hamburger Bahnhof: coming out of the jar.

Berlin's museum Hamburger Bahnhof: out of balance.

Berlin's museum Hamburger Bahnhof: in a stand by modus.