Ikarus Fotografsko umetniško delo by Florian W. Mueller

Ikarus Fotografsko umetniško delo by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Srebrna nagrada A' Design Award in Fotografija in obdelava fotografij Competition Category.

SrebrnaFotografija· 2022

Ikarus Fotografsko umetniško delo

by Florian W. Mueller

Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography

Srebrna nagrada A' Design Award Winner in Fotografija Category

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The Design

About Ikarus Fotografsko umetniško delo

Ikarus je fotografska serija, ki prikazuje ohranjene primerke ptic izumrlih ali močno ogroženih vrst. Vsaka ptica je upodobljena v slogu Rembrandtove slike, ozadje vsakega portreta pa je makro fotografija perja te ptice. Primerki so bili fotografirani v ornitološki zbirki Senckenbergovega inštituta v Dresdnu v Nemčiji. Naslov se nanaša na legendo o Ikarju, ki je poletel previsoko in padel v morje. Ikarus je tretji del zbirke serij z naslovom Neglect. Dela so izdelana na materialu ChromaLuxe v omejenih izdajah.

The Recognition

About the Srebrna nagrada A' Design Award

Ikarus Fotografsko umetniško delo je prejemnik Srebrne nagrade A' Design Award, izjemno prestižnega priznanja, ki se podeljuje čudovitim, impresivnim vrhunskim oblikovanjem. Prejemniki Srebrne nagrade so izjemno briljantna in zelo ustvarjalna dela, ki ponazarjajo izjemno strokovnost, talent in bistrost svojih oblikovalcev. Od Ikarus Fotografsko umetniško delo se pričakuje, da bo čudovito, zgledno delo, opazno profesionalno in globoko inovativno. To oblikovanje, nagrajeno s Srebrno nagrado A' Design Award, je zelo opazen, občudovan izum, ki koristi in premika meje umetnosti, znanosti, oblikovanja in tehnologije. Ikarus Fotografsko umetniško delo je stvaritev, ki ji mnogi zavidajo, ki prebuja želje, prinaša pozitivna čustva in vzbuja začudenje in občudovanje.

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