"In Timm Rautert’s work, the creative, active „self“ blends with the people, stories, and agendas behind the pictures to create a new artistic whole. Here, he not only looks ahead, but also always to the side or back. A few decades later, DER ZWEITE BLICK (The Second View) is not only the title of a group of works in which Rautert uses his own archive of negatives from his student days for dense visual collages. By taking this step, he also literally forces the questioning, overwriting, and new interpretation of his previous photographic work. At the same time, the constantly curious activity in DER ZWEITE BLICK shows the fundamental, deeply artistic attitude that so aptly describes the life and work of the photographer and artist Timm Rautert." Thomas Seelig in: exhibition catalogue Museum Folkwang and Bombas Gens Ccentre d'Art, Timm Rautert and the Lives of Photography, Steidl, Göttingen, 2021