Blocks of ice, chiseled by time, exist silently in a land of a thousand shades of grey. They whisper hushed promises of eternity, withstanding the mournful caress of global change.
Olaf Otto Becker’s photographs of Greenland’s west coast arouse notions of stunning grandeur. Along this icy shore, the German photographer ventured, in a dingy, with his 8×10 large format camera. For month-long periods, over the course of four years, Becker captured the staggering essence of an extraordinary land. His photographs reveal the nuances of the enchanting Nordic light as it illuminates a cloud-covered sky with endless shades of pink, and reflects off a devastatingly serene sea.
Each shot includes a specific GPS location in its title, so we might go back one day and see how the landscape compares, five or five hundred years from now.
A painter since childhood, Becker began taking photographs as a teen. He probes with his camera, reaching deeper into reality for a more complete understanding of the world that exists around him, and enables us to witness something sublime, something beyond our every day existence.
Munich’s Galerie f5,6 features the work of Olaf Otto Becker through June 28. On that very day, “Human/Nature: Recent European Landscape Photography” opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City featuring works by Becker and other European photographers. It runs through October 5, 2008.
03 Jul 2008 at 9:09 am
[...] Art Exhibition: Olaf Otto BeckerBlocks of ice, chiseled by time, exist silently in a land of a thousand shades of grey. They whisper hushed promises of eternity, withstanding the mournful caress of global change. Olaf Otto Becker’s photographs of Greenland’s west … [...]