Josef Hoflehner
Gripping in their ultimate solitude and the unexpected natural beauty they capture, Josef Hoflehner's black and white landscape photographs raise his earthly subject matter to an almost mythical level, defining the essence of the place. He has long held a fascination with secluded places and empty spaces and since the early 1990s and has worked in some of the most remote and forbidding areas of the world: Antarctica, Vietnam, China, Japan, the Yemen, and Iceland. In these rare and elusive moments, the natural and the man made are brought together in a poetic interplay of light and shadow, emptiness and structure. Hauntingly beautiful, each photograph achieves a perfection of composition that seems to defy the possibility that it could ever be seen any other way. Through his images, we are moved to a new level of observation and exposed to a world where the chance and an underlying natural order coexist with our own built environment.
Hoflehner is represented by leading photography art galleries worldwide, and his exquisite silver gelatin prints are found in a constantly growing number of public, private and corporate collections around the globe; notable collections include Polo Ralph Lauren, Fidelity Investments, Sprint Nextel and Lane Crawford. …
Gripping in their ultimate solitude and the unexpected natural beauty they capture, Josef Hoflehner's black and white landscape photographs raise his earthly subject matter to an almost mythical level, defining the essence of the place. He has long held a fascination with secluded places and empty spaces and since the early 1990s and has worked in some of the most remote and forbidding areas of the world: Antarctica, Vietnam, China, Japan, the Yemen, and Iceland. In these rare and elusive moments, the natural and the man made are brought together in a poetic interplay of light and shadow, emptiness and structure. Hauntingly beautiful, each photograph achieves a perfection of composition that seems to defy the possibility that it could ever be seen any other way. Through his images, we are moved to a new level of observation and exposed to a world where the chance and an underlying natural order coexist with our own built environment.
Hoflehner is represented by leading photography art galleries worldwide, and his exquisite silver gelatin prints are found in a constantly growing number of public, private and corporate collections around the globe; notable collections include Polo Ralph Lauren, Fidelity Investments, Sprint Nextel and Lane Crawford. Hoflehner exhibits regularly in New York City, Los Angeles, Berlin and London. International Photography Awards voted him Nature Photographer of the Year 2007. In September 2009, Hoflehner released his eleventh monograph and in 2010, the Swedish Museum of Photography in Stockholm hosted Hoflehner's first museum solo-exhibition.
Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery
Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY
Acte Deux Galerie, Paris, France
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
