Meet photographer Grit Dörre at ART56°

When: Saturday to Wednesday, 25 July–5 August, 1:00–5:00 PM

Where: ART56°, Æ Gammel Havn 9, Hvide Sande

What: Open studio with photography by Grit Dörre. Free entry.

Organiser: ART56° artist residence

Grit Dörre has been a freelance photographer since 2003, based between Frankfurt and Dresden. Her background spans craft training in Dresden and Potsdam, a master's degree at TU Dresden, and assistant roles in advertising and architectural photography in Berlin and New York – including a stipend at Grey Advertising and the title of European Architectural Photographer 1995.

But the CV only tells part of the story. What drives Grit is the reduced view – the composition stripped of distraction, that reaches straight to the essence of a subject. Images that hold grace and timelessness, strength and delicacy, all at once. For her, photography isn't lifestyle or medium or document. It's pure light painting. A window in time, opening onto the world.

She works best near the sea. In Hvide Sande, she finds exactly that: coastline, light and the particular stillness that makes the clearest seeing possible. Come and find out what she does with it.