Away from painting and back to photography, I would like to introduce a photographer from Austria, named Clemens Ascher. He fits perfectly into my list of graphically working people. I do not know about his source of inspiration, anyhow the imagery is very impressive. Ascher`s work, both free and commercial, is also characterized by clear lines and structure. Nothing seems to be superfluous and everything minutely planned. My favorite is the free series On Pleasure Grounds, which is about “a fictional amusement park”. We are in a zoo and or an adventure park (as the title says) but everything seems exaggerated futuristic. The pictures are characterized by large areas and everything is dipped in pious pastel tones, – in contrast to the families looking at rockets, between animals. We get a feeling of beeing far in the future, but actually the scenes take place in the present. Ascher`s pictures play with the reality and maybe a critic is hidden to it.

I will be keeping my eye out for a book of Clemens’ work. Until then, it can be viewed on his homepage, here: clemensascher.com