Stands as a definitive visual statement within the highly celebrated narrative collections by contemporary photographer Uwe Ommer. Relying on high-contrast twilight light management, raw multi-figure conceptual layout replication, and an intensive color-block background to map out an atmospheric environment, the artwork masterfully tracks a complex rhythm of organic harmony and spatial gravity. The horizontal orientation anchors a powerful flat perspective across the setup, using a vibrant lighting contrast over the yellow turbans to turn a massive orange sun baseline, a sand dune landscape, and an embedded vintage stamp motif into an elegant topographic scenery of pure visual balance and quiet luxury.
This series of photographs were taken for a European calendar. The idea was to create postcards with several countries on different continents, in the images the artist decided to clone the models.
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Magic Realism Photography - Saudi Arabia, 1993. From the Mani- Cartes Postales
Saudi Arabia, 1993
Archival Pigment
Dimensions: 27.5 H x 39,3 W in.
Edition of 6 + 1AP
Unframed
Uwe Ommer (born 1943) in Bergisch Gladbach is a German photographer. Uwe Ommer became fascinated with photography at a young age. Initially sparked by his interest in photographing birds, he received his first camera at age 14 and began experimenting with his limited equipment. By the time Ommer was 18, he had given up on birds but was improving his skills as a photographer. He began working as an apprentice in a camera shop and soon picked up side projects for local papers, shooting everything from car accidents to weddings, when staff photographers were unavailable. In 2002, Uwe Ommer was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society for the impact of his lifetime of work.
