Background information
For this series of night time (city) landscapes in the photo volume 'As Dark As Light', German photographer and 'BECHER scholar' Axel HÜTTE has worked on since 1996. He uses the landscape theme in his work to explore the borderlines of perception. Darkness transforms a landscape into a flat, black plane, in which artificial light makes forms distinguishable and colours visible.
Content
The out-of-print photo volume 'As Dark As Light' contains a set of sixteen nocturnal photographs made by Axel HÜTTE in various cities around the world: Githio (Greece), Roncolo (Italy), Roterdam (Netherlands), Bourg St. Maurice (France), Bejing (China), Horse Creek (Alaska), Almati (Kazakhstan), Düsseldorf (Germany), London (UK) as well as Berlin. Aside from the underlying theme of night photography, the works are united by the strict geometry of the compositions.
The volume is completed by two texts, 'The Democratic Landscape of Axel Hütte' by Els Barents and 'Respite for the Eye' by Rudolf Schmitz in German as well as translated in English.