Portfolio of seven Archival Pigment Prints on Archival Paper 20,3 x 25,4 cm (8 x 10 inches)
printed by Olaf Otto Becker in an edition of 25, numbered and signed
edited by Petra Giloy-Hirtz and Ira Stehmann
curators Munich, 2009
Olaf Otto Becker
Edition
Olaf Otto Becker
Taken in the clear light of the midnight sun, and therefore almost shadowless, these photographs offer breathtaking views of an untouched landscape from a remote part of our planet. Olaf Otto Becker (*1959 in Travemünde) brings us images of overwhelming beauty, the result of his adventurous journeys in a rubber raft across the icy seas of Greenland. Like Under the Nordic Light, his series from Iceland, the photographs possess a certain melancholy and stillness reminiscent of the grandeur of Romantic landscape painting. At the same time, the outlook of an unperturbed explorer and his recording of exact location when photographing turns them into testimonies to a time when an increasingly warm climate is precipitating the disappearance of the glaciers. In this way, the images record the artist’s awe at the beauty of creation—as well as the dangers facing it.
Petra Giloy-Hirtz
Biography
| 1959 | born in Travemünde/Germany |
| 1989 | Abschluss Dipl. Kommunikationsdesign Augsburg, Schwerpunkt Fotografie |
| 1989/1991 | Freelanced designer |
| seit 2003 | ausschließlich fotografisch orientierte Projekte, freier Mitarbeiter des New York Times Magazine |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2011 | Stadthaus Ulm |
| 2009 | The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen |
| 2009 | Cohen Amador Gallery New York |
| 2009 | Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen |
| 2009 | Northbound, Alfred Ehrhard Stiftung Köln |
| 2008 | Galerie f.5.6 München |
| 2008 | Cohen Amador Gallery, New York |
| 2007 | Gallery Stephen Cohen, Los Angeles |
| 2007 | Galerie Münsterland |
| 2006 | Cohen Amador Gallery, New York |
| 2006 | Galerie Hartmann, München |
| 2005 | Rotonda, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln |
| 2004 | Galerie AV Ludwigsburg |
| 2003 | Galerie Hartmann, München |
Group Exhibitions
| 2009 | Gratwanderung, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren |
| 2009 | AIPAD New York |
| 2009 | B-sides, Galerie f5,6 |
| 2008 | Keine Angst, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen |
| 2008 | New York Photofestival |
| 2007 | Museum for Photography, Reykjavík |
| 2007 | Art Cologne |
| 2006 | Ebersberger Kunstverein |
| 2005 | Paris Photo, Galerie Thomas Zander |
| 2005 | Stuttgarter Fotosommer 2005 |
| 2004 | Städtische Galerie Überlingen |
| 2003 | Paris Photo, Schaden.com, Köln |
Corporate Collections
| 2008 | Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 2006 | Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas USA |
| 2004 | Städtische Galerie Überlingen |
Awards
| 2008 | Lead Award |
| 2007 | Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2008 für „Broken line“ |
| 2006 | Förderung der VG Bild und des Kulturfond der BRD für Projekt „Broken line“ |
| 2006 | „Unter dem Licht des Nordens“ auf der Liste der besten Bücher 2006 in Arles |
| 2006 | „Unter dem Licht des Nordens“ Auswahltitel „Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2006“ |
| 2005 | BjV-Preis 2005 |
Publications
| 2011 | Under the Nordic Light, mit einem Text von Petra Giloy-Hirtz, Hatje Cantz |
| 2009 | Above Zero, Hatje Cantz |
| 2009 | Contemporary German & International Landscape Photography |
| 2008 | New York Times Magazine, Bolivia |
| 2008 | Keine Angst, Exhibition Catalog Kunstverein Ludwigshafen |
| 2008 | Verschwindende Landschaften, Dumont |
| 2008 | Visual Leaders 2008 |
| 2007 | Broken Line , Hatje Cantz |
| 2006 | Exhibition Catalog Ebersberger Kunstvereins |
| 2006 | Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography |
| 2005 | Olaf Otto Becker „Unter dem Licht des Nordens“ Verlag Schaden.com Köln, |
| 2005 | Exhibition Catalog „Stuttgarter Fotosommer 2005“ |
| 2004 | Exhibition Catalog Museums Überlingen "Wasser in der Kunst vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart" |