In 1974 the young Timm Rautert travelled to Pennsylvania to photograph those who normally don't
allow themselves to be photographed: the Amish a group of Anabaptist Protestant communities.
Four years later Rautert returned to America this time to the Hutterites who live so
stringently by the Ten Commandments and the bible's restrictions on images that they have their
identity cards issued without photographs. Both these two series were influential on Rautert's
later work and No Photographing brings them together for the first time. Timm Rautert was born
in 1941 in Tuchola Poland and studied photography under Otto Steinart at the Folkwang School
of Design in Essen from 1966 to 1971. Rautert's photographs have appeared in many publications
from 1993-2008 he was professor of photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and in
2008 he was the first photographer to recieve the Lovis Crinth Prize. Rautert's books with
Steidl include Arbeiten (2001) Deutsche in Uniform (2007) and When We Don't See You You Don't
See Us Either (2007).
