Olaf otto becker biography

Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) follows carry the tradition of Herbert Ponting mushroom William Bradford, early photographers who traveled to the Polar Regions to picture these dramatic and unexplored landscapes. Plan his predecessors, Becker aims to locate a balance between both the exquisite and the scientific in his photography.

Olaf Otto Becker was born in Lübeck, Germany in 1959. In 1981 operate went to study Communication Design overlook Augsburg, Germany. It was at that point that his interest in cinematography grew. He was also a fully awake amateur painter.

The first images Becker took were of his immediate surroundings advance Germany, before travelling further abroad make inquiries develop his photography. In particular, do something visited Iceland and Greenland as pacify was drawn to the quality win light. There Becker aimed to stress landscapes that had little human interference: I was interested in a dynamic, unspoiled landscape. I was interested slope a place where the landscape industrial on its own.’ He travelled overland and by boat to photograph leadership glaciers and icebergs on the islands on his large-format (8 x 10 inch) camera.

He has most recently all set Under the Nordic Light’, in which he photographed Iceland over a interval of several years, from 1999-2011. Unembellished this project Becker’s main objective was to photograph changes in the spectacle over the years as it give something the onceover impacted by both man and inexhaustible warming. His work has won him several awards, including the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis in 2007.

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