Ikarus Primary Function: Ubuhanzi bw'Ifoto by Florian W. Mueller

Ikarus Primary Function: Ubuhanzi bw'Ifoto by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza in Ifotora Competition Category.

IfezaIfotora· 2022

Ikarus Primary Function: Ubuhanzi bw'Ifoto

by Florian W. Mueller

Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography

Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza Winner in Ifotora Category

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The Design

About Ikarus Primary Function: Ubuhanzi bw'Ifoto

Book Text: Ikarus ni urukurikirane rw'amafoto agaragaza inyoni zabitswe zo mu bwoko bwazimye cyangwa bwugarijwe cyane no kuzimira. Buri nyoni igaragazwa mu buryo bw'igishushanyo cya Rembrandt, kandi inyuma ya buri foto ni ifoto ya macro y'amoya y'iyo nyoni. Izi nyoni zabitswe zafatiwe amafoto mu icungwa ry'inyoni ry'ikigo cya Senckenberg mu mujyi wa Dresden, mu Budage. Umutwe ushingiye ku mugani wa Icarus, watumurutse cyane hejuru maze aragwa mu nyanja. Ikarus ni igice cya gatatu cy'ikusanyirizo ry'urukurikirane rwitwa Neglect. Ibi bikorwa bikorwa ku bikoresho bya ChromaLuxe mu bwinshi bugarukira.

The Recognition

About the Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza

Ikarus Primary Function: Ubuhanzi bw'Ifoto ni uwegukanye Igihembo cya A' Design Award cya Ifeza, ishimwe ridasanzwe ry'agaciro gakomeye ritangwa ku bishushanyo byo ku rwego rwo hejuru, byiza kandi bikora ku mutima. Abegukanye Ifeza ni ibihangano by'ubuhanga bukomeye kandi bifite guhanga kwinshi, bigaragaza ubuhanga bwimbitse, impano n'ubushishozi bw'ababihanze. Ikarus Primary Function: Ubuhanzi bw'Ifoto biteganyijwe ko izaba igihangano cy'icyitegererezo, gifite ubunyamwuga bukomeye n'udushya twimbitse. Iki gishushanyo cyegukanye Ifeza ni igihangano kizwi kandi gishimwa, gifasha kugura imbibi z'ubuhanzi, ubumenyi, ubushushanyo n'ikoranabuhanga. Ikarus Primary Function: Ubuhanzi bw'Ifoto ni igihangano benshi bifuza, gikangura ibyifuzo, gitanga amarangamutima meza kandi gitera igitangaza.

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