.CSABA PETER RAKOCZY
-born in Cologne 1963-law studies at the University of Cologne-abroad in Japan and USA-since
1988 picture journalist, photo artist and photographic author of numerous illustrated books of
Cologne and its surroundings-since 1992 photographic editor for the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger"
-September 2001 rewarded the award for promoting the democratic state registeredsociety by
the foundation of Colognes trades-may 2003 rewarded the journalistic award "Wächterpreis"
in Frankfurt
Exhibitions (Selection):
1996 "Silent Moments", University of California, Sacramento/ USA
1998 "100 Years of Silence -Monastery Life of Cologne", Cologne Municipal Museum
2005 "Mediterranean Sea Art Festival", Art Gallery Lindenthal, Cologne
2006 "Artflight", Photoexhibition in the height of 10.000 metres during a scheduled flight from
Cologne to Danzig with a Germanwings Airbus / "One View", large-sized blow up photographs to
nail onto the house fronts in Cologne for Plan 06 - forum actual architecture in Cologne
2007 "Town life" Rhine-Design-Festival 21.-24. June the twenty-first, installation art, Cologne
2008 "Two View",blow up photographs on display in church, Auferstehungskirche, Cologne
Books (Selection):
1997 "The Cathedral of Cologne" (Illustrated Book), J.P. Bachem publishing house, Cologne
1999 "Goethe and the fools", Marzellen publishing house, Cologne
2001 "Weidengasse" (Illustrated Book), J.P. Bachem/Önel publishing houses,Cologne/ Istanbul
2001 "Cologne - a Culinary Journey", J.P. Bachem publishing house, Cologne
2002 "Cologne, the Rhine, the Sea" (Illustrated Book), Emons publishing house, Cologne
2006 "Port of Duisburg", J.P. Bachem publishing house, Cologne
2008 "Port of Cologne", J.P. Bachem publishing house, Cologne
-born in Cologne 1963-law studies at the University of Cologne-abroad in Japan and USA-since
1988 picture journalist, photo artist and photographic author of numerous illustrated books of
Cologne and its surroundings-since 1992 photographic editor for the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger"
-September 2001 rewarded the award for promoting the democratic state registeredsociety by
the foundation of Colognes trades-may 2003 rewarded the journalistic award "Wächterpreis"
in Frankfurt
Exhibitions (Selection):
1996 "Silent Moments", University of California, Sacramento/ USA
1998 "100 Years of Silence -Monastery Life of Cologne", Cologne Municipal Museum
2005 "Mediterranean Sea Art Festival", Art Gallery Lindenthal, Cologne
2006 "Artflight", Photoexhibition in the height of 10.000 metres during a scheduled flight from
Cologne to Danzig with a Germanwings Airbus / "One View", large-sized blow up photographs to
nail onto the house fronts in Cologne for Plan 06 - forum actual architecture in Cologne
2007 "Town life" Rhine-Design-Festival 21.-24. June the twenty-first, installation art, Cologne
2008 "Two View",blow up photographs on display in church, Auferstehungskirche, Cologne
Books (Selection):
1997 "The Cathedral of Cologne" (Illustrated Book), J.P. Bachem publishing house, Cologne
1999 "Goethe and the fools", Marzellen publishing house, Cologne
2001 "Weidengasse" (Illustrated Book), J.P. Bachem/Önel publishing houses,Cologne/ Istanbul
2001 "Cologne - a Culinary Journey", J.P. Bachem publishing house, Cologne
2002 "Cologne, the Rhine, the Sea" (Illustrated Book), Emons publishing house, Cologne
2006 "Port of Duisburg", J.P. Bachem publishing house, Cologne
2008 "Port of Cologne", J.P. Bachem publishing house, Cologne
Turku
Dialogue Cities
Dialogue
Cathedrals
Turku - Cologne
Dialogue Cathedrals
Csaba Peter Rakoczy – Photography
"Around five o´clock on the next evening we arrived in Cologne, the ug-
liest, dirtiest city on which I ever laid my eyes. We went to see the Cathe-
dral, mere heaps upon heaps; a huge, misshapen thing, without either
symmetry or neatness belonging to it." This is how the English theologian
John Wesley saw Cologne in the year 1738.
My answer in the year 2011:
The photo-installation "The Dialogue Cathedrals – Quadrichon".
A photo gallery composed of four 80x200cm panels showing scenes from the
most important and biggest gothic church of the world, the Cathedral of
Cologne.
This photo-installation is visiting Turku, European Capital of Culture in the
year 2011 – photographic greetings to its Finnish sister city from the Rhine
metropolis.
Two Cathedrals of almost the same age meeting – Cologne and Turku.
A visual and ecumenical unison of two fascinating clerical buildings.
If John Wesley were able to see the by now finished Cathedral of Cologne
– a masterpiece of gothic architecture, the temple that embodies a high
gothic cathedral the most – he would shamefully reach for his laptop and
rewrite his travel log, to then travel on straight to Turku.
