Samsa Fotografisk kunstværk by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award i Guld in Fotografi og Fotomanipulationsdesign Competition Category.
GuldFotografi· 2022
Samsa Fotografisk kunstværk
Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography
A' Design Award i Guld Winner in Fotografi Category
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The Design
About Samsa Fotografisk kunstværk
Samsa er et fotografisk kunstværk fra serien Neglect. Serien viser konserverede eksemplarer af insekter, hvoraf de fleste er uddøde eller kritisk truede. Billederne blev skabt med et digitalt kamerasystem og et 105 mm makroobjektiv. En multishot-funktion blev anvendt til at skabe meget store filer på 185 megapixel. Et lille bordstudie blev bygget, så de skrøbelige eksemplarer kunne fotograferes med næsten ingen håndtering. Printene produceres i to størrelser og i begrænsede oplag. Målet er at afsløre insekternes usædvanlige skønhed og at henlede opmærksomheden på insekternes uddøen.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award i Guld
Samsa Fotografisk kunstværk er vinder af A' Design Award i Guld, en uhyre prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles førsteklasses, vidunderlige og fremragende designs. Guldvinderne er yderst innovative, højt visionære og glamourøst blændende skabelser, der afspejler deres designeres geni, visdom og dygtighed. Samsa Fotografisk kunstværk forventes at være en højt rost, trendsættende og monumental opfindelse, der leverer hidtil uset værdi. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Guld, er et spektakulært, respekteret projekt, som i høj grad gavner og flytter grænserne for kunst, videnskab, design og teknologi. Samsa Fotografisk kunstværk skaber intense følelser af begær, vækker passion, opmuntrer kreativitet og fascinerer os.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- 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
- Team Members
- Thomas Schmitt
Mandy Schroeter. - Image Credits
- All pictures:
Prof. Dr. Thimas Schmitt, Director
Mandy Schroeter, Technical Assistant Coleoptera & Digitization
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