TITLE: Just Black in Winter

AUTHOR: Harald Weimann (Germany)

Born in 1964 in Kempten (Allgäu) - Germany, he started in 1981 with the
Photography. As a pure autodidact he develops the knowledge and
photographed only for himself and friends.
In 1996, after finishing his business studies, he moved to Madrid - Spain.
Life changed and the focal points. So that the Photography only played a role in the form of snapshots of the family.
In 2017, photography began to gain importance again. Now living again in
Germany near Mannheim, he worked hard again as autodidact to learn all in the
now available digital photography.
But in contrast to the past, the projects are now clearly in space and time
defined. As a clear distinction from the fast-paced mobile phone snapshot world
are his pictures with a few exceptions are all black and white and square in
format. The suggestion is through isolation, excerpts and new perspectives
show the beauties and wonders of creation.
He always was inspired by Ansel Adams, who was with his books in the first
stage of photographic live the “teacher”. In the new face from 2017 on he
studied now also Sudek, Kenna, Giacomelli and began to develop a new way
of working. Still using Zone system and visualisation as Adams was proclaiming
now he started more using different speeds, working at night and showing
movements in the photos and he discovered the strength of negative space.
Also, his tools changed. Did he work in the past a lot with zoom lenses, now he
has 4 prime lenses from 18mm to 135mm and uses his feet as zoom following
the rule “If a photo is not good, you have not been close enough”.

Since then, his photos were exhibited in Paris, London, Barcelona, Budapest, Rom, Sydney, Glasgow, and on several online exhibitions.

His photos also won the following prices:

- Gold Medal PX3 Paris 2018
- First Place IPA 2018 Los Angeles
- Gold Medal Tokyo International Photo Awards 2018
- Honourable Mention Monochrome Photography Awards 2018 London
- Nominee 5. Fine Art Photography Awards 2019 London
- Honourable Mention, Prix de la Photographie Paris, 2019
- Honourable Mention IPA 2019, International Photography Awards Los Angeles
- Bronze Medal One Eyeland World’s Top 10 Fine Art Photographers 2019
- WINNER of Landscape & Seascape Category, 13th Pollux Awards
- Chennai /India - Shortlisted London Photo Show Competition 2019
- Shortlist Siena Photography Award 2021