Goud Fotografie · 2022
Samsa Fotografie-kunswerk
- A' Design Award in Goud 2022 in Fotografie
- CLIENT: Florian W. Mueller Photography
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 122,736
- Verification code 593435905C · Verify this award
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About Samsa Fotografie-kunswerk
Samsa is 'n fotografiese kunswerk uit die reeks Neglect. Die reeks toon gepreserveerde eksemplare van insekte, waarvan die meeste uitgestorwe of krities bedreig is. Die beelde is gemaak met 'n digitale kamerastelsel en 'n 105mm-makrolens. 'n Multishot-funksie is gebruik om baie groot lêers van 185 megapieksels te skep. 'n Klein tafelblad-ateljee is gebou sodat die brose eksemplare met byna geen hantering gefotografeer kon word nie. Die drukke word in twee groottes en in beperkte oplae vervaardig. Die doel is om die ongewone skoonheid van insekte te openbaar en aandag te vestig op die uitsterwing van insekte.
About the A' Design Award in Goud
Samsa Fotografie-kunswerk is 'n wenner van die A' Design Award in Goud, 'n geweldig prestigieuse erkenning wat toegeken word aan eersteklas-, wonderlike en uitstaande ontwerpe. Wenners in Goud is uiters innoverende, visionêre en glansryk verblindende skeppings wat die vernuf, wysheid en bekwaamheid van hul ontwerpers weerspieël. Daar word verwag dat Samsa Fotografie-kunswerk 'n hoogs geprese, tendensskeppende en monumentale uitvinding is wat ongekende waarde lewer. Hierdie ontwerp wat die A' Design Award in Goud gewen het, is 'n skouspelagtige, gerespekteerde projek wat die grense van kuns, wetenskap, ontwerp en tegnologie in hoë mate bevoordeel en uitbrei. Samsa Fotografie-kunswerk wek intense gevoelens van begeerte, roep passie op, moedig kreatiwiteit aan en boei ons.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
Franz Kafka
Part of the collection NEGLECT, photographed specimens of animals, most of which are extinct or critically endangered.
I want to show a little bit of the sometimes bizarre beauty of the insects, so that the viewer might see them with different eyes.
Because insect extinction is very real and not a made-up story. - Dimensions & Packaging
- Different artworks in two sizes in the end: 80 x 60cm and 120 x 90 cm. All available in strictly limited editions of 10/5 pieces.
- Tags
- photography, macor, insects, bugs, nature, animals, creatures, colors, fine art, artwork
- Production Technology
- Digital photography with the Leica SL2 system and a 105mm Macro lens.
The photographer used the "Multishot" function of the Leica System to produce giant 185 megapixel pictures of these little creatures. - Design Challenge
- The hardest part was to invent a small table-top-studio situation to photograph the little very fragile prepared insects. The photographer wanted to touch them as little as possible because the preparations are very fragile.
- Inspiration
- Insect extinction is very real and not a made-up story.
And these little creatures do not have a loud lobby.
The photographer wants to show a little bit of the sometimes bizarre beauty of the insects, so that the viewer might see them with different eyes.
Florian W. Mueller worked before with the Senckenberg Institute on a project about mammals. - Project Duration
- The planning took about half a year, in total it was four days on site to photograph. The post production took another two weeks.
- Operation Flow
- The photographer asked for the permission to photograph these sometimes very rare or extinct insects in the institute in Brandenburg near Berlin in Germany. Then he got to work there with great support.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Florian W. Mueller, 2022
- Image Credits
- All pictures:
Prof. Dr. Thimas Schmitt, Director
Mandy Schroeter, Technical Assistant Coleoptera & Digitization
