ULRICH ACKERMANN

Arctic Images

This sequence of aerial photographs is from a larger collection shot in arctic north-west Alaska, in 1980. Shooting with a Nikon F2 AF and a 105mm lens, on Kodachrome 64, this was my first experience of aerial photograph. The view from a high-wing Cessna is uninterrupted and gave me such wide views of this graphic landscape. Since then, aerial photography has played a frequent part in my work. Being there with a camera in your hands is totally different to seeing the world from a drone.

Ulrich Ackermann

B. 1947. Switzerland.

From an apprenticeship in photography to the development of his vertical format photography, Ulrich Ackermann has travelled the world and his work has appeared in books, magazines, newspapers and exhibitions. Over the last fifteen years he has developed a long vertical format using a Hasselblad X-Pan camera. This unusual format has been to the fore in his latest books on the Dolomites, Trees in Switzerland and the ancient larch forest in Canton Valais in Switzerland.

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