Photography Collection

When Olaf Otto Becker takes photos of Greenland's sceneries, glaciers and coastal elevations with icebergs, the pictures almost strike as surreal originate. Baker is a master of large format photography and a photo book like Broken Line (Hatje Cantz) cannot catch of course the impression of one of his gigantic prints. But it mediates at least a little bit of it. Baker is a master of the light, these fine nuances which place the blue-white of an iceberg in a fine contrast to the simple background of the water line and the grey sky. When I have seen for the first time photos of Becker which he has taken in Iceland in a Munich gallery, I was paralyzed. I have never again seen something like that before and after. If one may use the word Genius, it is aqppropriate for h Olaf Otto Becker. He is again and again attracted by the north and thus the photos originated in Greenland between 2003 and 2006. Only there he finds so fine colour and contrast nuances which allow to become his photographs great pieces of art. He is really worldwide one of the greates landscape photographers.

The gallery Stephen Cohen, Los Angeles, presents photographs from "Broken Line" in March, 2008.

Olaf Otto Becker was born in 1959 in Travemuende, Germany, and studied communication design in Augsburg as well as philosophy and religious sciences in Munich. Since 1988 he works as a designer and photographer.