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Ikarus Karya Fotografi by Florian W. Mueller

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


PerakFotografi· 2022

Ikarus Karya 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 Fotografi

Ikarus adolah rangkaian foto nan mampatontonkan spesimen buruang nan lah dipabaiki dari spesies nan lah punah atau sangaik tarancam punah. Satiok buruang digambakan sarupo lukisan Rembrandt, sarato latar balakang satiok potret adolah foto makro dari bulu buruang tu. Spesimen-spesimen tu difoto di koleksi ornitologi Institut Senckenberg di Dresden, Jerman. Judulnyo marujuak ka legenda Icarus, nan tabang talampau tinggi lalu jatuah ka lauik. Ikarus adolah bagian katigo dari suatu rangkaian koleksi nan banamo Neglect. Karyo-karyo ko dibuek jo bahan ChromaLuxe dalam edisi tabateh.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Perak

Ikarus Karya Fotografi adolah pamenang A' Design Award Perak, sabuah pangakuan nan luar biaso bapresti nan dibarikan ka rancangan tingkaik tatinggi, elok jo mangesankan. Pamenang Perak adolah karya nan sangaik cemerlang jo sangaik kreatif nan mamparlihatkan kapakaran, bakaik jo katajaman pikiran parancangnyo. Ikarus Karya Fotografi dipaokan manjadi karya nan mangaguikan, contoh tauladan, sangaik profesional jo inovatif sacaro dalam. Rancangan nan manang Perak iko adolah panemuan nan nampak jo dikagumi nan mambari sumbangan untuak maluaskan batas seni, ilimu, rancangan jo teknologi. Ikarus Karya Fotografi adolah ciptaan nan dicamburui banyak urang, nan mambangkikkan karinduan, mambaok parasaan positif jo malahiakan karagumon jo kakaguman.

Behind the Design

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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

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