“If you’re ever getting bored of super-clean postcard views of famous places and buildings, you might find Jon Damaschke’s inside views of Chicago inspiring. His square-formatted pictures provide a very unique, sensitive and thoughtful look upon his hometown and his fellow citizens. Being a gifted observer, Jon often arranges his spontaneous portraits of people passing by into a clearly segmented composition, using architectural or environmental structures as dominating lines to create a highly defined structure without losing liveliness and impact. Change, decay, communication, human relationships, picturesque details as well as isolation and grief can be found in his artwork. Jon uses his camera both to document and to comment upon urban reality.

The results speak for themselves. Jon’s gallery provides a widespread panorama of modern city life. His approach goes way beyond the Chicago city limits, aiming at modern life itself in a very personal way, showing sympathy, optimism and - despite the sternness of many of his compositions - a warm-hearted sense of humour.

Better be warned, folks. Jon’s view of the Big City, close to the heartbeat of a rapidly changing metropolis, soon turns out to be not only seductive, but highly addictive.”