Benedikt Partenheimer: The Weather is Fine

Benedikt Partenheimers works depict the close connection and increasing imbalance between humans and the earth, making them aesthetically intriguing, existentially important, and politically controversial.

Format: Hardback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 25 November 2021
Publisher: Hatje Cantz

We are living in a time of rapid and exciting change, and we are also in the midst of the Anthropocene age. The environment and climate are changing as a result of human-driven turbo-capitalism, and Benedikt Partenheimers works help us to imagine the close connection and increasing imbalance between humans and the earth. Through his photographs, he reveals processes of ecological and cultural transformation that are both fascinating and impressive.

What makes these pictures so irresistible is the human influence factor. The painterly mist of air pollution floating above urban panoramas, the ambivalence of mountain reflections in melted glacier water, and the price of beauty that is inscribed into each image. Partenheimers work is aesthetically intriguing, but it is also existentially important and politically controversial.

He challenges us to think about our relationship with the natural world and the impact of human activities on it. His photographs remind us of the beauty and fragility of our planet and the need to take action to protect it for future generations.

Weight: 1166g
Dimension: 325 x 249 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783775750738