Art de Fact

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Andreas Kremer, Germany
• Date of Photograph
  2023-2024
• Studio
  ImVerbund GmbH
• Website
  https://www.andreaskremer.com
• Instagram
  @andreaskremer.photography

In my new series "Art de Fact" I reflect on the zeitgeist, which seems increasingly surreal to us due to its unpredictability and unreality. In doing so, I detach myself from an immediate level of statement. In "Art de fact" it´s about the following thesis: if effectiveness means more than truth, virtuality increasingly replaces physical reality, and affects dominate meaning and reason, then art can provide support, orientation and meaning. Ideally, without instruction, explanation or moral judgment, but by allowing feelings, desires, disturbance or pleasure, hearing and seeing inwardly.

Andreas Kremer, living in Cologne/Germany, began his artistic path after he had worked successfully in business for many years. Never losing touch with photography during the years, 2014 he changed his focus completely to photography as visual art, and hasn’t put down his camera since. In 2019, he published his first photobook Tension with Kerber Verlag. His series The Last Resort (2020–2024) and Art de Fact (since 2024) have received international attention. After participating in an expedition he celebrates the raw beauty of the Arctic in his current series Arctic Silence.

Awards Meanwhile my images were awarded by international photocontests, featured by magazines as well as exhibited in galleries. For instance at Kolga Photo Award (Georgia), Tokyo International Foto Awards, The Independent Photographer, IPA International Photography Awards/Px3 Paris, Lensculture, L´Oeil de la Photographie, Featureshoot, Fotopolis, Leica LFI, digit!, Esquire, DER GREIF, BBA Gallery Berlin, Kerber Verlag Berlin (publisher of my Book "TENSION"), Michael Horbach Stiftung Cologne, ARTE Laguna Prize Venice, and others.