Jochen Lempert

A second artist's book from the German photographer.

For more than 35 years, Jochen Lempert's photographs have stood out as a singular oeuvre within contemporary art. A trained biologist, his gaze is marked by constant wonder at the natural world. Frogs, doves, swans, insects, plants, people, clouds, and the sea: nature populates Lempert's photographs in all its variety. On closer examination, the photographs reveal an interplay of associations and echoes. Delicate forms are reproduced, playing both with such natural imagery as a butterfly's wings, and with our means of perception.

Lempert is increasingly interested in the phenomena of perception and how it is translated into images. For all their photographic minimalism, always captured with the simplest means of an analogue camera or light-sensitive paper, Lempert's pictures are full of poetic power and a profound knowledge of the Natural Sources of our existence.

Along with the stark, simple hanging of his works in exhibitions, artist's books are one of his favourite ways of presenting his work.