GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHER ANDREAS Gefeller captures his surroundings in striking detail and imaginative abstraction. His 2019 series, Clouds, creates painterly compositions from various cloud formations. With few edits to the original photograph, Gefeller presents these everyday weather phenomenons almost entirely as they appeared in the sky that day, highlighting the awe-inspiring and ominous inner workings of our atmosphere. Zoomed in to the billowy shapes, we see a thunderstorm brewing. Zoomed out, it is revealed that some of these clouds are in fact fabricated, as they escape from an industrial chimney. “Biblical motifs or evidence of man-made global warming?” Gefeller asks. “The Clouds series is both: a document of human creativity and relentless exploitation.”
