Atlas Gallery is pleased to announce that two of these new works will also premier in Rotterdam this February, at the pioneering art fair Haute Photographie.
ATLAS will be exhibiting at the fair for the very first time. Haute is centred around a group exhibition, featuring works by the grand masters from the history of photography, to the youngest and most exciting young talents working with the medium today. This collection brings together a select group of 15 intervnational galleries and is created in collaboration with the Nederlands Fotomuseum.

Niko Luoma is one of the most celebrated amongst the Helsinki School of Photography. His monumental works are highly unique, being visual records of their own creation and capturing both the scientific and unexpected nature of photography. In essence, Luoma’s focus on the process of creating a photograph becomes the very content of his work. By using an analogue technique, he exposes a negative to single lines of light hundreds and in some cases, thousands of times. “My work is about reduction and repetition, layering ideas of systems and chance. Ultimately my core interest lies not in the front of the camera, but inside of it where the exposure becomes a content.”

In the works of Düsseldorf photographer Andreas Gefeller, architectural landscapes are portrayed with blinding light, representing an allegory of today’s fast-moving and overstimulated society. His photographs also offer a manipulation of space – often from above, walking inch-by-inch across parking lots and golf courses, Gefeller amasses hundreds of high-resolution photographs of the ground. He stitches these images together into single, large-scale composites, providing a view of the ground beneath his feet so intensely detailed that it appears abstract. When seen from above, water could be the surface of skin under a microscope, fuzzy static, snow or marble. A turquoise-and-white textured expanse, crisscrossed by an intricate black grid appears alien, but is in fact the familiar pattern of a tiled swimming pool, seen from a totally unfamiliar angle.

Kacper Kowalski is a graduate of the Technical University of Gdańsk, where he studied architecture. After having worked in architecture for four years, he devoted himself entirely to flying and photography. Both as a pilot and a photographer, he takes aerial pictures of natural and urban environments of his native Poland. Kowalski brings a radically different approach with his poetic winter landscapes shot from a gyrocopter at the constant height of 300 meters above ground, every day after the falling of fresh snow. The resulting works offer intriguing glimpses of partially erased landscapes. Within their white expanse, visual clues of human activity – agricultural structures, helipads, railways – are partially visible, though not immediately recognisable. The images, in their simplicity, invite contemplation on mankind’s impact on the environment, as well as being a meditation on loneliness, and perhaps the ultimate fragility of human existence.