About the German photographer, Olaf UNVERZART (b. 1972)

Olaf UNVERZART is a Bavarian photographer and graduate of the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig (HGB), where he studied photography from 1994 to 2000. Since 2006 he taught photography first at the Academy of Arts in Nuremberg, then in Salzburg and Munich. Since 2005 he has already published nine volumes of photography. Olaf UNVERZART currently lives in Munich and the Upper Palatinate.

Photo books by Olaf UNVERZART

  • 'Sans Moi' (2005); 'Spuren' (2007); 'Leichtes Gepäck' (2009); 'Don't fade to Grey' (2011); 'ALP' (2014); 'Hundert' (2016); 'Earl y Grey' (2018); 'Été' (2020); 'Walking Distance' (2022)


In 'Don't Fade to Grey', Olaf UNVERZART creates images that raise subtle, melancholic questions. His coarse-grained b/w images, taken with analog cameras, associate both transience & openness. It was designed by the award-winning designer Andreas TÖPFER.
from 14,80 €
For 'Hundert', Olaf UNVERZART returns to his Upper Palatinate home to portray the one hundredth year of his grandmother's life. The photographer unfolds the reality of his protagonist's life in intimate close-ups of the centenarian and landscape images.
from 35,00 €
Photo volume 'Été' by Olaf UNVEZART and Sebastian SCHELS shows ski resorts in the French and Italian Western Alps. The atmosphere of the tourist architecture and infrastructure in the snowless and deserted places is strangely melancholic and enraptured.
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Drawing a trail, setting the direction, being responsible. Traces on asphalt in the snow, traces of light on a ceiling, traces on the ground, traces of time. Moments somewhere. Olaf UNVERZART traces moments with the camera, random sections, blur phenomena
from 78,00 €
'Sans moi' convinces above all as a book object, in that the sensual unison is always preserved in an excellent way. Even when Olaf UNVERZART's gaze descends from the sky to a desert landscape, the high quality of the photographs cushions the visual break
from 65,00 €
The photo volume 'Leichtes Gepäck' by Olaf UNVERZART is a strikingly different photo book, which one gladly takes in hand to accompany the German photographer on his 27 journeys made over a period of ten years throughout the world.
from 49,00 €
With the photo volume 'Walking Distance', Olaf UNVERZART shows his interpretation of a travel diary. Beyond sights, well-known places with supposedly country-typical folklore, it opens the view for the things and living beings in between - an in-between.
39,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
The catalogue 'Photobooks. Art Page by Page' accompanies an exhibition with a selection of 45 photo books from recent decades, focusing on unusual concepts, designs & forms of presentation that reveal the potential of the photo book as an artistic medium.
48,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
For this photo volume 'ALP' Olaf UNVERZART documented the Alps from today's perspective: dwindling glaciers, machines smashed by avalanches, concrete castles hewn into the rock, defying nature. His photographs document the traces left behind by man.
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