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Hiepler & Brunier
Vessels In the days of Columbus and Vespucci, ships were used for explorative journeys. These days, they have largely come to be symbols of the global trade of consumer goods. In 2013, 53,000… Read more
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Cityscapes
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Cityscapes
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Big Tank IV
Georgia Aquarium
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Georgia Aquarium
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Georgia Aquarium
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Background Information about Hiepler & Brunier
Introduction
Vessels
In the days of Columbus and Vespucci, ships were used for explorative journeys. These days, they have largely come to be symbols of the global trade of consumer goods. In 2013, 53,000 cargo ships transported 9.5 billion tons of freight on the world’s oceans, completely unseen by most people. 90% of the goods we buy have crossed an ocean on a ship at least once.
Few people realize how diverse these cargo ships – the motors of the modern globalized world – can be. In a very objective fashion, David Hiepler and Fritz Brunier photograph merchant vessels from every nation, boats of every size, shape, color, make and model, visualizing this aspect of consumerism.
David Hiepler, Fritz Brunier
Applied calmness
David Hiepler (*1969) and Fritz Brunier (*1972) find their motives by making detours, interrupting their drives and taking sideways. Somewhere off the travelled routes they take the time to track down curious sights and wait for the right light.
The works of the award-winning photographers, who together trained at the Berlin Lette-Foundation and have been working together for one decade, are dedicated to prosaic handwriting, thus remembering of modern objective photography. And yet these works still transport the amazed look that devolves even to the viewer. Whether confronted with the magnificence of a desert or the elegance of a skyline, the pattern of skyscrapers and cottages or the arbitrary course of a road, the duo Hiepler/Brunier has preserved a laconic watchfullness. One of the effects being slight amusement over the subtle absurdities of our world.
Their pictures, including the most majestic panoramas, emit serenity, something light in their pastell coloration and invite the viewer over and again to lose himself. "To lose orientation from time to time is nice", states David Hiepler in his typical sober tone, and Fritz Brunier continues by reporting on the inspiring cooperation of the two photographers that developed dialogically and lead to that unobtrusive sobriety their works are known for. "Symmetry bores us", he says, "we want to avoid simple compositions and therefore prefer to move our objects away from the center for example". The composure the photographers radiate can be found in their works. It filters through and relaxes. Perhaps this is exactly what makes them successfull, overlaping art and commerce, in both realms.
Big Fish, Small Fish
The eye-catcher of this image is clear, but the small yellow fish are also worth notice. Whoever can summon up the courage to go for a swim with the largest known fish in the world is a welcome guest at the aquarium in Georgia, USA. At the aquarium you can actually dive with the harmless giants of the tropical seas. Whether Hiepler and Brunier went so far is not known. Their exterior view of the "Big Tank" gives that impression all the same. A whale shark, by the way, can become close to fourteen-feet long and up to 100 years old.
In the days of Columbus and Vespucci, ships were used for explorative journeys. These days, they have largely come to be symbols of the global trade of consumer goods. In 2013, 53,000 cargo ships transported 9.5 billion tons of freight on the world’s oceans, completely unseen by most people. 90% of the goods we buy have crossed an ocean on a ship at least once.
Few people realize how diverse these cargo ships – the motors of the modern globalized world – can be. In a very objective fashion, David Hiepler and Fritz Brunier photograph merchant vessels from every nation, boats of every size, shape, color, make and model, visualizing this aspect of consumerism.
David Hiepler, Fritz Brunier
Applied calmness
David Hiepler (*1969) and Fritz Brunier (*1972) find their motives by making detours, interrupting their drives and taking sideways. Somewhere off the travelled routes they take the time to track down curious sights and wait for the right light.
The works of the award-winning photographers, who together trained at the Berlin Lette-Foundation and have been working together for one decade, are dedicated to prosaic handwriting, thus remembering of modern objective photography. And yet these works still transport the amazed look that devolves even to the viewer. Whether confronted with the magnificence of a desert or the elegance of a skyline, the pattern of skyscrapers and cottages or the arbitrary course of a road, the duo Hiepler/Brunier has preserved a laconic watchfullness. One of the effects being slight amusement over the subtle absurdities of our world.
Their pictures, including the most majestic panoramas, emit serenity, something light in their pastell coloration and invite the viewer over and again to lose himself. "To lose orientation from time to time is nice", states David Hiepler in his typical sober tone, and Fritz Brunier continues by reporting on the inspiring cooperation of the two photographers that developed dialogically and lead to that unobtrusive sobriety their works are known for. "Symmetry bores us", he says, "we want to avoid simple compositions and therefore prefer to move our objects away from the center for example". The composure the photographers radiate can be found in their works. It filters through and relaxes. Perhaps this is exactly what makes them successfull, overlaping art and commerce, in both realms.
Big Fish, Small Fish
The eye-catcher of this image is clear, but the small yellow fish are also worth notice. Whoever can summon up the courage to go for a swim with the largest known fish in the world is a welcome guest at the aquarium in Georgia, USA. At the aquarium you can actually dive with the harmless giants of the tropical seas. Whether Hiepler and Brunier went so far is not known. Their exterior view of the "Big Tank" gives that impression all the same. A whale shark, by the way, can become close to fourteen-feet long and up to 100 years old.
Bio
David Hiepler was born in 1969 in Lank-Latum, Germany and grew up in Düsseldorf and Basel. Fritz Brunier was born in 1972 in Krumbach, Germany and grew up in Bad Wörishofen, Germany. Both photographers studied the art at the Lette Verein. They have been working together under the name Hiepler and Brunier since 1996. They have exhibited their work in Germany, Switzerland, Paris, Shenjang, St. Petersburg, and Edinburgh.
Awards
new york festivals
silver world medal, photography print/outdoorgold world medal, print home appliances
cannes lions
silver lion, pressbronze lion, outdoor
cresta awards
consumer grandprix winner, presswinner, poster
the one show, new york
silver pencil, print/outdoor
golden awards of montreaux
gold, print - home furnishing
art directors club, germany
bronze medal, public ad
art directors club, germany
Nachwuchswettbewerb 2006
merit, practical work
int’ award “die anzeige”
bronze, public ad, consumer goods
london international awards
finalist, photography (print)
finalist, print-home furnishingfinalist, print - consumer campaign
finalist, billboard campaignfinalist, poster campaign - indoor
finalist, outdoor campaign
art directors club of europe,merit award, press,
art directors club, new york,merit, outdoor / billboards
db Architekturbild, europäischer Architekturfotografiepreis, 1997, 2. Preis
art director club deutschland 2002, bronze
db Architekturbild, europäischer Architekturfotografiepreis, 2003,Anerkennung
art director club deutschland 2003, bronze
art director club deutschland 2004, Auszeichnung
silver world medal, photography print/outdoorgold world medal, print home appliances
cannes lions
silver lion, pressbronze lion, outdoor
cresta awards
consumer grandprix winner, presswinner, poster
the one show, new york
silver pencil, print/outdoor
golden awards of montreaux
gold, print - home furnishing
art directors club, germany
bronze medal, public ad
art directors club, germany
Nachwuchswettbewerb 2006
merit, practical work
int’ award “die anzeige”
bronze, public ad, consumer goods
london international awards
finalist, photography (print)
finalist, print-home furnishingfinalist, print - consumer campaign
finalist, billboard campaignfinalist, poster campaign - indoor
finalist, outdoor campaign
art directors club of europe,merit award, press,
art directors club, new york,merit, outdoor / billboards
db Architekturbild, europäischer Architekturfotografiepreis, 1997, 2. Preis
art director club deutschland 2002, bronze
db Architekturbild, europäischer Architekturfotografiepreis, 2003,Anerkennung
art director club deutschland 2003, bronze
art director club deutschland 2004, Auszeichnung
Exhibitions
2019 | NL1.1, Neue Langeweile, Voies off, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France | |
2016 | ninety percent of everything, Pavlov's Dog Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
2014 | Der zweite Blick / the second viewing, Aspekte Galerie im Gasteig, München; Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen, Germany | |
2013 | industrious, poho art gallery, Dalian, China Body of Work, Pingyao international Photography Festival, Pingyao, China Industrious, national industry museum, Shenyang, China Der zweite Blick / the second viewing, deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt; f75 Fotogalerie, Stuttgart, Germany Die Wartenden / the waiting, 8. Wiesbadener Fototage, Germany stillgestellt / immobilized, Designerwerkschau, München; Galerie f75, Stuttgart; Schmiede-Raum für Fotografie, Hamburg, Germany | |
2012 | Common Ground, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy | |
2011 | Industrious, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland | |
2008 | Galerie Kunstbureau, Paris, France | |
2007 | SAM, Schweizer Architekturmuseum, Basel,Switzerland | |
2006 | Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany | |
Monat der Fotografie, Zadig, Berlin, Germany | ||
2003 | Projektraum Auguststraße, Berlin, Germany | |
Designmai, Deckadresse, Germany | ||
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany | ||
2001 | Junge Fotografie, Focus Berlin, Stuttgart, Germany | |
2000 | opaque, Berlin, Germany | |
1998 | Heremitage, St. Petersburg, Russia | |
Photokina, Köln, Germany | ||
Nikon Gallerie, Zürich, Switzerland | ||
1997 | Aedes East, Berlin, Germany | |
Intern. festival of architecture and design, Edinburgh, UK | ||
Haus des Architekten, Stuttgart, Germany | ||
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany | ||
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