Samsa 写真作品 by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 金賞 in 写真・フォトマニピュレーションデザイン Competition Category.

金写真· 2022

Samsa 写真作品

by Florian W. Mueller

Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography

A' Design Award 金賞 Winner in 写真 Category

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The Design

About Samsa 写真作品

「ザムザ」は、シリーズ「Neglect（ネグレクト）」の中の一点となる写真作品です。本シリーズは、その多くが絶滅種または近絶滅種である昆虫の標本を捉えています。撮影にはデジタルカメラシステムと105mmマクロレンズを使用し、マルチショット機能によって1億8500万画素という非常に大容量のデータを生成しました。繊細な標本をほとんど手を触れずに撮影できるよう、卓上の小型スタジオを制作しています。プリントは2つのサイズで、限定版として制作されます。本作の狙いは、昆虫が持つ類まれな美しさを明らかにするとともに、昆虫の絶滅という問題に目を向けてもらうことにあります。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金賞

Samsa 写真作品は、まさに素晴らしく傑出した第一級のデザインに授与される、計り知れないほど権威ある評価である A' Design Award 金賞の受賞作品です。金賞の受賞作品は、きわめて革新的で、先見性に富み、きらびやかに輝く創造物であり、デザイナーの天才性、叡智、卓越した技量を映し出しています。Samsa 写真作品は、最も称賛される、流行を牽引する記念碑的な発明であり、前例のない価値をもたらすことが期待されます。この A' Design Award 金賞を受賞したデザインは、壮観で尊敬されるプロジェクトであり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に大きく寄与し、それを前進させます。Samsa 写真作品は、強い欲求を生み出し、情熱を呼び覚まし、創造性を促し、私たちを引きつけます。

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