Bernhard Edmaierborn in 1957, is a photographer and geologist. His knowledge of the structure of the Earth and the history of its geological development makes the basis of his photographic art. For the last fifteen years, Bernhard Edmaier has been taking pictures of the earth predominantly in places where it was formed by natural forces alone over long geological time periods. His aim is to present the manifold structures which the Earth created without man’s touch. His latest project took him to the regions of the world most affected by dwindling ice, which has been caused by the present climatic changes – the permafrost areas of the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, Siberia and Svalbard, as well as the glaciers of East Greenland and the High Alps. The series of images entitled Glacial is a part of it. Bernhard Edmaier’s images present no idyllic landscapes but very concrete and often abstract pictures of permanently freezing and melting ice world. In order to present a great variety of shapes and forms of these hardly known corners of the world, the photographer sets a distance – he shoots his images from the air, mostly square and without a visible horizon line. Without this benchmark, the Earth becomes a new and fascinating world of criss-crossing patterns. He has had numerous exhibitions in many cities in Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Luxembourg and Japan. Publications (selection)
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