Background information, content
"Breathtaking views of untouched landscape and images of overwhelming beauty of a remote part of our earth are brought back by Olaf Otto BECKER from adventurous journeys in rubber dinghies across the ice seas of Greenland. Like his first cycle from Iceland, 'Under the Light of the North', which was also published as a photo book, the large-format color photographs refer in their iconography of melancholy and silence to the sublimity of romantic landscape painting. At the same time, through the researcher's incorruptible gaze and their exact geographical localization, they are testimony to a time when glaciers were disappearing in a warmed climate. Thus these photographs preserve the artist's astonishment at the beauty of creation-and at the same time document its endangerment." (© Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007)
Awarded the German Photo Book Prize 2008.
In the press
- "The book is more than an award-winning feast for the eyes of extraordinary photographic art." (© Commune)
"The images, which Becker captured in adventurous trips from a rubber dinghy, captivate with their clear sharpness and rich color tones." (© Süddeutsche Zeitung)
"He has captured the sublime grandiosity of nature so impressively and beguilingly that one feels very close to the absolutely beautiful." (© Kosmopolis)
About the German photographer, Olaf Otto BECKER (b.1957, in Travemünde)
Photo books by Olaf Otto BECKER
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Christoph Schaden
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 35 x 28 x 2,5 cm., 152 pp., 75 color ills., bilingual text: German / English