Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

[vimeo video_id="143865219" width="1000" height="563“] It is always special to work with Ester Vonplon, on one side because I admire her work enormously and on the other because she became my business parter at b.frank books after I published her first book cudesch da visitas. Her second book with b.frank books is about the melting glaciers in Switzerland and the gigantic cloths that cover them in summer to slow down the melting process. The series features Ester’s very recognizable style of eerie, cinematic and sometimes abstract photographs that transform the glaciers into human-like shapes, showing their fragility and foreshadowing their possible extinction. Vonplon’s photographs are accompanied by a LP with (original) music by Stephan Eicher, ensuing from sound clippings of the lapping of melted glacier water. So turn up the volume and check out her beautiful slideshow which was made for the “Nuit de lAnnée 2015” at the Rencontres d’Arles to also get a sense of Stephan Eicher’s music. And here’s the link to the book.