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(3.68 - 111 votes)About Stephan:
Hundreds of meters above the ground with a climbing harness, hanging out of an open helicopter, Zirwes composes his graphical abstracting photographs. His work shows patterns, structures, connections, boarders, uniformities and contrasts but also current political and sociocritical themes. The orthogonal view of his photographs reduces the space into two dimensions. Superficially the pictures don’t tell a story but allow an unemotional, aesthetical view on a ‘real-picture-graphicâ?. The content of the picture, through its abstract appearance, seems like an exemplary glance ‘ not really touchable but still exactly classifiable.
But as soon as you step closer to the picture the dots and lines begin to unscramble, they turn into humans, buildings and recognizable figure parts. More and more details like the character of the surface, people in the picture and the still existing traces of their actions can be discovered. The goal is to create an artificial over-reality, that increases the tension in terms of content as well as in terms of visuals. The viewer has to ask himself if the seen is reality or fiction.
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Beautiful! I love the images on your website!
Comment by Jay — October 26, 2009
awesome
Comment by Cat — October 26, 2009
This is very provacative work, combining interesting texture, perspective and pattern from human interraction with the landscape.
Comment by Gary McCray — October 26, 2009
I really didn’t care for the two images displayed, but after checking his website I was really impressed. There are a ton of images that turn the ordinary into really interesting images
Comment by justin — October 26, 2009
Check out the website, there are very amazing pictures there… my favorite ones are where I can’t figure out what they are (like the yellow picture above)… or where he shows relaxation via isolation…
Good work…
Comment by Armando — October 26, 2009
Interesting stuff! Dangerous!
Comment by Casey Shannon — October 26, 2009
I really like this too… the featured image almost appears as a genome project graphic.
Comment by Stimpygato — October 26, 2009
i hate this guy…if i had a helicopter and a pilot to fly me where ever, i bet i could find some good shots too. despite my desire to kick this guy’s ass in a fit of jealousy, i find his work impressive.
Comment by deal — October 26, 2009
Interesting patterns. The method of capturing these images certainly takes a lot of guts. Well done.
Comment by lsh — October 26, 2009
very good. i like the way the objects in the pictures almost become the pixels of the photograph. interesting!
Comment by carl greenaway — October 26, 2009