Ikarus Primary Function: Фотографско произведение by Florian W. Mueller

Ikarus Primary Function: Фотографско произведение by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Сребърна награда A' Design Award in Дизайн на фотография и фотоманипулация Competition Category.

СреброФотография· 2022

Ikarus Primary Function: Фотографско произведение

by Florian W. Mueller

Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography

Сребърна награда A' Design Award Winner in Фотография Category

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The Design

About Ikarus Primary Function: Фотографско произведение

Book Text: „Ikarus“ е фотографска серия, показваща съхранени екземпляри на птици от изчезнали или силно застрашени видове. Всяка птица е изобразена в стила на картина на Рембранд, а фонът на всеки портрет е макро фотография на перата на съответната птица. Екземплярите са фотографирани в орнитологичната колекция на института „Зенкенберг“ в Дрезден, Германия. Заглавието се позовава на легендата за Икар, който полетял твърде високо и паднал в морето. „Ikarus“ е третата част от серийна колекция, наречена „Neglect“. Творбите са произведени върху материал ChromaLuxe в ограничени тиражи.

The Recognition

About the Сребърна награда A' Design Award

Ikarus Primary Function: Фотографско произведение е носител на Сребърната награда A' Design Award — извънредно престижно признание, присъждано на дизайни от най-висока класа, великолепни и впечатляващи. Сребърните победители са изключително блестящи и крайно творчески творби, които илюстрират изключителната компетентност, талант и проницателност на своите дизайнери. Очаква се Ikarus Primary Function: Фотографско произведение да бъде прекрасна, показна творба, забележително професионална и дълбоко иновативна. Този дизайн, спечелил Сребърната награда A' Design Award, е високо забележимо, възхищавано изобретение, което е от полза и разширява границите на изкуството, науката, дизайна и технологиите. Ikarus Primary Function: Фотографско произведение е творение, на което мнозина завиждат, което събужда желания, внася положителни чувства и разпалва изумление и възхита.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Here are photographed specimens of animals, most of whose species are extinct. For this series Dr. Martin Päckert, the head of the ornithology section of the Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, he supported me very dedicated in my work.
In painting, the foolish or overconfident person is often depicted as Icarus.
Dimensions & Packaging: Produced artworks are in the size 120 x 90cm, 80 x 60cm available. All strictly limited to 5/10 pieces.
Tags: animals, photography, endangered, extinct, birds, environment, portrait, Rembrandt
Production Technology: Digital Photography, produced on ChromaLuxe material.
Design Challenge: The challenge was to set the prepared birds in scene like in a Rembrandt painting. The background of the portraits is a macro-photography of the feathers of each bird.
Research: I found that in the collection of the Senckenberg Institute in Dresden the most rare examples of extinct bird species are collected.
From a project before I had the contacts to the institute and they immediately said yes, when I asked to photograph the examples for my project. Then Dr. Martin Päckert helped me a lot with the taxonomy and the names and the origin of the birds and the preparations.
Inspiration: We know the legend of Icarus, whose father Daedalus built wings of feathers and wax for himself and his son to escape from the captivity of Minos on Crete. The son Icarus became overconfident, the wax melted, he fell into the sea. Despite his father’s warnings.
Despite warnings and admonitions, we spiral into ever higher and warmer and warmer climes, and the crash is not far away. Okay, maybe that’s a bit drastic and striking. But all photographed birds are either extinct or highly endangered.
Project Duration: It took nearly a year of research and preparation, two days of shooting and around 2 weeks of post-production.
Operation Flow: This is the third series of my collection of series, called NEGLECT. All endangered or extinct species.
I had the wonderful chance to photograph in the ornithology institue of the Senckenberg Institutes in Dresden, Germany.
Patents: Copyrights belong to Florian W. Mueller, 2022.
Image Credits: Credits:
Leica Camera Germany
Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden
ChromaLuxe
Photography Zingst