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Monika Schneider germany
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Paradise Flowerheads
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entry description
With a lot of my projects, there’s a preservationist impulse at work. In many ways, I think of the photographs as a kind of record-keeping in a world that’s rapidly being depleted of its natural resources. By using photography as recording device to create the best possible two-dimensional representation of three-dimensional living things, the images become physical documents. I want to understand how things work, to lay them out in some kind of order, not to change them, but to consider them in a way I can understand. I have a desire to create clarity out of confusion, and investigating the botanical world appealed to this impulse. It’s fascinating that the astonishingly beautiful qualities of the flowers are purely survival mechanisms. I love that every flower is a dependent half of an ecosystem, and structurally, they evoke their insect counterparts.about the photographer
Monika Schneider is a photographer based in Germany. Much of her work is concerned with the intersection of nature and digital technology. Monika's precise images create unique correlation points between the viewer and the subject. Her immersive investigation of the natural world produce botanical Macro Photographs.back to gallery
