金 攝影 · 2022
Samsa 攝影藝術作品
- A' Design Award 金獎 2022 in 攝影
- CLIENT: Florian W. Mueller Photography
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 122,736
- Verification code 593435905C · Verify this award
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About Samsa 攝影藝術作品
Samsa係嚟自《Neglect》系列嘅攝影藝術作品。呢個系列展示咗昆蟲嘅保存標本，當中大部分已經絕種或者屬於極度瀕危物種。啲影像係用數碼相機系統同一支105mm微距鏡頭拍攝，並運用多重拍攝功能製作出高達1.85億像素嘅超大檔案。創作者仲特別搭建咗一個細小嘅枱面影樓，令脆弱嘅標本可以喺幾乎唔使觸碰嘅情況下進行拍攝。作品以兩種尺寸限量印製。呢個系列旨在展現昆蟲不尋常嘅美態，同時喚起大眾對昆蟲滅絕問題嘅關注。
About the A' Design Award 金獎
Samsa 攝影藝術作品是 A' Design Award 金獎得主，這是授予一流、絕妙而傑出設計的極為崇高的認可。金獎得主是極具創新、極富遠見且璀璨奪目的創作，反映出其設計師的天才、智慧與才幹。預計Samsa 攝影藝術作品將成為一項備受讚譽、引領潮流、氣勢恢宏的發明，帶來前所未有的價值。這件贏得 A' Design Award 金獎的設計是一個壯觀而受人敬重的項目，極大地造福並拓展藝術、科學、設計和技術的界限。Samsa 攝影藝術作品激起強烈的渴望，喚起激情，鼓勵創造力，令我們著迷。
Press Kit
- 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
- Image Credits
- All pictures:
Prof. Dr. Thimas Schmitt, Director
Mandy Schroeter, Technical Assistant Coleoptera & Digitization
