Achim Koerfer
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Fine Art Photography by Achim Koerfer
Already in his childhood days, Achim Koerfer developed a passion for photography. In the years that followed, the fine art photographer from Mönchengladbach evolved his intensely personal signature style. Equipped only with his conventional reflex camera, he uses his precise grasp of marshalling multiple exposures to create images not only with the exciting and striking look of a digitally composited motif but also with a subtly compelling shift of perspective. His technique, his philosophy and the message of his works share a single, cogently simple premise: things are seldom as they seem. Topical issues of immediate relevance to the fine art photographer and to society in general serve as inspiration for his photo sequences. Koerfer rises to the challenge of taking a stand and creates photographic manifestos to express his concern in terms of striking imagery and vivid colour intended to polarise opinion and invite liberating controversy. To this effect, Koerfer selects his subjects with utmost concentration, an unerring eye for in situ composition and a highly intuitive eiditic grasp of skillfully layered exposures. The result is beguiling images of intrinsic beauty whose mesmeric interplay of light and colour work an inescapable charm upon the beholder.
To create his surrealistically visionary compositions, Koerfer superimposes layer upon layer of images, symmetrical upon assymetrical, geometric upon organic. The finished work then affords the beholder a look behind the scenes, behind the familiar and day- to- day to reveal a new dimension between the lines of reality, wherein traditional, long- established ways of viewing things are made to follow new rules. Koerfer’s unique multiple exposures unveil new landscapes where boundaries blur, dichotomies are reconciled and inamimate objects tell stories of how important it is to look at the familiar in a new light and there, find and experience the startlingly new. Here, new vistas are opened where everyday things are made, by a subtle sleight- of- hand, to become magical and fascinating.
If you should like to learn and see more, you are cordially welcome to visit the www.unikatfabrik.de website, which has an English- language mirror.
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