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„Udo W. Gottfried is an unusual artist. His work consists of unifying contraries. It is big and small, harsh and soft, black and white, light and shadow, easy and hard, rooted and levitating, light-hearted and serious, joyful and sad, spontaneous and elaborate, silent and loud, figurative and abstract, it is chain saw and delicate ink stroke, above all his art is one thing: authentic. (...) Monika Houck gets close to this very man in her photographs. In her portrait of him she abstains from all types of staging, this way she lives up to him and also to herself. In the best photographic manner we participate in what forms Udo W. Gottfried as a human and what forms his art. She shows the versatile main character full of multiple facets and offers large open space to subtle nuances in form of other people and scattered photographs of his drawings.“ Dr. Peter Forster, Introduction