The Last Resort

• Prize
  Silver in Fine Art/Collage
• Photographer
  Andreas Kremer, Germany
• Date of Photograph
  2021
• Studio
  ImVerbund GmbH
• Website
  https://www.andreaskremer.com
• Instagram
  @andreaskremer.photography

In this series I integrate typical urban and landscape scenes into a spatially and culturally different context. Due to the resulting polarity, the surreal and sometimes dystopian-looking images appear like hypothetical sociological studies and as a metaphor of time. My aim is to illustrate the interaction between nature and the space claimed by humans in it, thereby highlighting current challenges such as climate change, rural exodus, exclusion or the clash of social orders.

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.