In his new artist book Jochen Lempert presents 35 small and medium b/w photographs arranged and designed by himself. Lempert’s interest in the natural world as a subject has been further complemented by his exploration of the properties and materiality of the photographic image. Analogue, black and white, hand-printed in the darkroom, his photographs resist categorization and confront the canons of today’s aesthetic.
Zoologist Jochen Lempert has consecrated himself to animal photography. Relating to his scientific fieldwork in humorous and poetic ways, his serial black-and-white photographs attempt to give order to nature. This monograph features studies of swans in swimming formation; profile portraits of duck-like birds with charismatic beaks; images of a monkey wedged under a rock and a deer crossing the street. Lempert's photographs of baby strollers lined with all variety of sheepskins are dry and funny; his studies of waves have an understated power.