In 2006 Markus Mari Feichter co-founded the Green and Social Academy for Art, or WOB for short, which he has directed ever since.
Since his youth, Feichter has been passionately involved in education and photography. His driving force to found an alternative free secondary school is based on the desire to be able to offer this opportunity to his own large group of children.
Meaning is born out of action. The now is born out of action. The lasting is born from the deed. That is why the poodle in Goethe’s Faust growled. Because the negator does not like it. Markus is a doer. He says YES to what he does. And to what others do. – With all their mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes and learns from them. – But if he does not understand them, then he asks. This is called interest. Wanting to connect with the other, to understand him, to get in touch with him, to communicate. He participates.
He leads the WOB and sees this project as his most beautiful and biggest project so far, he sees it as a mission for his soul. He loves these young living maturing people and accompanies the growing as well as everything else that is doing – that is a lot – with his 3rd eye, the camera.
Visual Presentation: Language Through Photography
And there is this constant desire to discover something new, as it has been with all explorers since the earliest times, this irrepressible, almost libidinous need to experience a thousand moments at the same time, to go forward, but not to show oneself, but to show oneself, but not to show oneself, but to discover the new, the not yet visible, the unique, in a stone, in a plant, in an animal, in a human being, perhaps even in the invisible, to go in where everything is only perceptible, foreseeable, to sound out there, to deepen, to emphasise, to evoke even.
Markus does not select the motifs when he presses the Trigger. Certainly, he is constantly searching, seeking their attention, everywhere, indoors and outdoors, in landscape photography, in portraiture, but then, while walking, philosophising, observing: Suddenly a relationship develops, a realisation, knowledge: Now! Because everything with him is motive, motivation, perception, becoming aware, becoming conscious, moving on – and, he, always on the way, there the eyes are awake, there the intuition is perceptible so that a spontaneous deep relationship arises between the photographer and the motive, there the picture arises and the range of his pictures is enormous.
But the moment of this invisible RELATIONSHIP has been burnt onto the hard disk, digitalised, printed or whatever you want to call it: in any case, it has become VISIBLE and the picture shines precisely because it was conceived at the right moment, from the inside out.