Ikarus Karya Seni Fotografi by Florian W. Mueller

Ikarus Karya Seni Fotografi by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award Perak in Desain Fotografi dan Manipulasi Foto Competition Category.

PerakFotografi· 2022

Ikarus Karya Seni Fotografi

by Florian W. Mueller

Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography

A' Design Award Perak Winner in Fotografi Category

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The Design

About Ikarus Karya Seni Fotografi

Ikarus adalah seri fotografi yang menampilkan spesimen burung yang diawetkan dari spesies yang telah punah atau sangat terancam punah. Setiap burung digambarkan dengan gaya lukisan Rembrandt, dan latar belakang setiap potret merupakan foto makro dari bulu burung tersebut. Spesimen-spesimen ini difoto di koleksi ornitologi Senckenberg Institute di Dresden, Jerman. Judulnya merujuk pada legenda Icarus, yang terbang terlalu tinggi lalu jatuh ke laut. Ikarus merupakan bagian ketiga dari sebuah koleksi seri berjudul Neglect. Karya-karya ini diproduksi pada material ChromaLuxe dalam edisi terbatas.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Ikarus Karya Seni Fotografi adalah pemenang A' Design Award Perak, pengakuan yang sangat bergengsi yang diberikan kepada desain kelas atas yang indah dan mengesankan. Pemenang Perak adalah karya yang sangat cemerlang dan sangat kreatif yang menggambarkan keahlian, bakat, dan ketajaman luar biasa para desainernya. Ikarus Karya Seni Fotografi diharapkan menjadi karya yang menakjubkan, etalase keahlian, sangat profesional, dan sangat inovatif. Desain pemenang A' Design Award Perak ini adalah penemuan yang sangat menonjol dan dikagumi yang bermanfaat bagi dan memajukan batas-batas seni, sains, desain, dan teknologi. Ikarus Karya Seni Fotografi adalah kreasi yang sangat dicemburui yang membangkitkan keinginan, membawa perasaan positif, dan memercikkan keheranan dan kekaguman.

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