Conceptual photographer, photojournalist, and former university professor Timm Rautert has repeatedly worked in industrial companies; automobile factories, aircraft manufacturing, weapons production, computer and chip production as well as working conditions in large hospitals are the subjects of his image series. Rautert's observation of the changes in the world of labor and the gradual disappearance of humans from production processes continually explores the possibilities of photographic representation. "The intelligence of the factory no longer finds its physiognomic (therefore photographable) expression in the gigantic symbiosis of inorganic machinery and the organic bodies of the workers," writes Hartmut Böhme in "Gehäuse des Unsichtbaren (Housing of the Invisible): Photographs by Timm Rautert on the Third Industrial Revolution“ (1992). In this body of work, begun in the 1980s and transferred to a double projection in 2021, Rautert developed a highly artificial visual language in order to capture hypercomplex machines as well as the absence of people and the extreme purity of manufacturing. For "it is not man who must be protected from the machines, the machines must be protected from the people." Characterized by surveillance monitors and automatic production machines that prevent the view of work processes and products, the invisibility of digital processes in particular challenges industrial photography.