Ikarus Obra Fotográfica by Florian W. Mueller

Ikarus Obra Fotográfica by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Prata in Deseño de Fotografía e Manipulación Fotográfica Competition Category.

PrataFotografía· 2022

Ikarus Obra Fotográfica

by Florian W. Mueller

Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography

A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Fotografía Category

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The Design

About Ikarus Obra Fotográfica

Ikarus é unha serie fotográfica que mostra espécimes conservados de aves de especies extintas ou en grave perigo de extinción. Cada ave está retratada ao estilo dunha pintura de Rembrandt, e o fondo de cada retrato é unha macrofotografía das plumas dese paxaro. Os espécimes foron fotografados na colección de ornitoloxía do Instituto Senckenberg en Dresde, Alemaña. O título fai referencia á lenda de Ícaro, que voou demasiado alto e caeu ao mar. Ikarus é a terceira parte dunha colección de series chamada Neglect. As obras están producidas en material ChromaLuxe en edicións limitadas.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Prata

Ikarus Obra Fotográfica gañou o A' Design Award de Prata, un recoñecemento enormemente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de gama alta, fermosos e impresionantes. Os gañadores Prata son obras tremendamente brillantes e sumamente creativas que ilustran a pericia, o talento e a agudeza sobresaíntes dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Ikarus Obra Fotográfica sexa unha obra marabillosa, escaparate de oficio, notablemente profesional e profundamente innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Prata é unha invención moi notable e admirada que beneficia e fai avanzar os límites da arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía. Ikarus Obra Fotográfica é unha creación moi envexada que esperta desexos, achega sentimentos positivos e prende asombro e marabilla.

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