Ouro Fotografía · 2022
Samsa Obra Fotográfica
- A' Design Award de Ouro 2022 in Fotografía
- CLIENT: Florian W. Mueller Photography
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 122,736
- Verification code 593435905C · Verify this award
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About Samsa Obra Fotográfica
Samsa é unha obra fotográfica da serie Neglect. A serie mostra espécimes conservados de insectos, a maioría dos cales están extintos ou en perigo crítico de extinción. As imaxes realizáronse cun sistema de cámara dixital e unha lente macro de 105 mm. Empregouse unha función multidisparo para crear ficheiros moi grandes de 185 megapíxeles. Construíuse un pequeno estudio de sobremesa para que os fráxiles espécimes puidesen ser fotografados case sen manipulación. As impresións prodúcense en dous tamaños e en edicións limitadas. O obxectivo é revelar a insólita beleza dos insectos e chamar a atención sobre a extinción destes.
About the A' Design Award de Ouro
Samsa Obra Fotográfica gañou o A' Design Award de Ouro, un recoñecemento inmensamente prestixioso outorgado a deseños de primeira clase, marabillosos e sobresaíntes. Os gañadores Ouro son creacións sumamente innovadoras, visionarias e glamurosamente deslumbrantes que reflicten o xenio, a sabedoría e a destreza dos seus deseñadores. Espérase que Samsa Obra Fotográfica sexa unha invención moi eloxiada, pioneira e monumental que ofrece un valor sen precedentes. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Ouro é un proxecto espectacular e respectado que beneficia moito a arte, a ciencia, o deseño e a tecnoloxía e fai avanzar os seus límites. Samsa Obra Fotográfica crea intensos sentimentos de desexo, esperta a paixón, anima a creatividade e fascina.
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
