Photography
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All photographs © Studio Lernert & Sander
Exuding class and obscurity, Foggy Flowers is a two-photograph sequence by Sander Plug and Lernert Engelberts that facilities on our collective outlook for the long run by a blur of frosted glass. The duo, who work underneath Studio Lernert & Sander, unearthed the fragile photographs from their archive—the photographs have been taken in 2018 throughout a week-long interval once they labored repeatedly on numerous initiatives—in Might 2020 for Volkskrant Magazine, which requested them to epitomize their inventive course of throughout lockdown.
They didn’t need “to leap on the ‘look how very inventive we’re throughout this lockdown’ prepare,” Plug says, and regardless of their anachronistic context, the two-year-old sequence match the studio’s perspective. “After I look again, I see that the blurry and fuzzy flowers are about ambiguity,” he writes. “It symbolizes the best way we regarded to the long run then and the way everybody sees the long run now. There’s no level in worrying as a result of nobody can say how issues will end up now.”
Based mostly in Amsterdam, Plug and Engelberts have been collaborating for about a decade, creating a selection of industrial pictures and movie initiatives. A couple of limited-edition C-prints of the blurred bouquets are nonetheless out there on their site, and head to Instagram to discover extra of their work that ranges from documentaries to animal portraiture to installations stuffed with cubed cheese. (through Iain Claridge)
#flowers
#glass
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