The series Ohio amounts in several respects to a break with conventions. William Eggleston’s colour photography provoked a controversy as early as 1976, when in wide circles only black-and-white photography was still regarded as serious. But Brohm’s experiment with Ohio goes further: the pictures, taken with a medium-format camera, show run-down backyards and houses, cars, billboards and seemingly banal scenes of American everyday life. They are exclusively profane motifs, made in 1983/84 during a study stay in Columbus. Ohio tells of a point in the history of photography at which a new visual language began to develop.