Ikarus Primary Function: Umsebenzi Wobugcisa Wefoto by Florian W. Mueller

Ikarus Primary Function: Umsebenzi Wobugcisa Wefoto by Florian W. Mueller is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Ibhaso Lesilivere le-A' Design Award in Uyilo lokuFota kunye nokuLungisa iiFoto Competition Category.

IsilivereUkufota· 2022

Ikarus Primary Function: Umsebenzi Wobugcisa Wefoto

by Florian W. Mueller

Client: Florian W. Mueller Photography

Ibhaso Lesilivere le-A' Design Award Winner in Ukufota Category

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The Design

About Ikarus Primary Function: Umsebenzi Wobugcisa Wefoto

Ikarus luthotho lweefoto olubonisa iisampulu zeentaka ezigciniweyo ezivela kwiintlobo eziphelileyo okanye ezisengozini enkulu yokuphela. Intaka nganye iboniswa ngendlela yomzobo kaRembrandt, kwaye umva wesithombe ngasinye yifoto enkulu (macro) yeentsiba zaloo ntaka. Ezi sampulu zafotwa kwiqoqo lophando lweentaka (ornithology) leZiko iSenckenberg eDresden, eJamani. Isihloko sibhekisa kwintsomi ka-Icarus, owabhabha waya phezulu kakhulu waza wawela elwandle. Ikarus yinxalenye yesithathu yoqoqo lothotho olubizwa ngokuba yiNeglect. Le misebenzi iveliswe kwizinto zeChromaLuxe kwiimveliso ezinqunyelweyo (limited editions).

The Recognition

About the Ibhaso Lesilivere le-A' Design Award

Ikarus Primary Function: Umsebenzi Wobugcisa Wefoto ngumphumeleli weIbhaso Lesilivere le-A' Design Award, ukuqatshelwa okuhlonitshwayo ngokungaqhelekanga okunikwa imiyilo yomgangatho ophezulu, entle nechukumisayo. Abaphumeleleyo beSilivere ziimveliso ezikhazimlayo kakhulu nezidala kakhulu ezibonisa ubungcali obuphawulekayo, italente nobukrelekrele babayili bazo. Ikarus Primary Function: Umsebenzi Wobugcisa Wefoto iyathenjwa ukuba ibe ngumsebenzi omhle womzekelo, onobungcali obuphawulekayo nezinto ezintsha ezinzulu. Lo myilo uphumeleleyo weIbhaso Lesilivere le-A' Design Award yimveliso ebonakalayo kakhulu, ethandwayo enceda kwaye inyusa imida yobugcisa, inzululwazi, uyilo kunye nobuchwephesha. Ikarus Primary Function: Umsebenzi Wobugcisa Wefoto yimveliso enomona omkhulu kuyo evusa iinqwenelo, izisa iimvakalelo ezintle kwaye ivuselela ukumangaliswa nokumangala.

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