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Elmar Laubender
Switzerland
Artist highlights
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Printing : Digital on Plexiglas , Alu-Dibond under plexiglas
- Framing : Framing on request
- Dimensions : 31.5x47.2in
- Edition : All editions sold (10 / 10)
- Artist's proof : 10
About this artwork
In this fine-art underwater macro photograph, life condenses into a silent architecture: a dense colony of soft coral polyps forms a single, breathing whole. Each individual unit appears like a small, translucent sculpture – drawn with fine lines and patterns that glow in the deep blue. The reduced color palette and the surrounding dark space give the subject an almost graphic quality: calm, precise, and yet organic.
Soft corals and their polyps… exist in a delicate balance with their environment. They require stable temperatures and clear, clean water – conditions that are increasingly under pressure due to warming, pollution, and stress on the reef. Their decline is often an early, subtle signal: an indication that the ecosystem is already changing, long before the consequences become visible on a larger scale.
Soft corals and their polyps… exist in a delicate balance with their environment. They require stable temperatures and clear, clean water – conditions that are increasingly under pressure due to warming, pollution, and stress on the reef. Their decline is often an early, subtle signal: an indication that the ecosystem is already changing, long before the consequences become visible on a larger scale.
Elmar Laubender
Switzerland
Credentials
- Works on commission
Elmar Laubender is a fine art photographer who has been exploring underwater worlds around the globe for over 30 years, translating his fascination into artistic works. He consciously works with manual camera techniques and shapes his visual language through precise composition, reduction, and formal condensation – in close-up shots that are sometimes abstract and often painterly in their effect.
Depending on the underwater situation, depth, and available light, he uses natural lighting, supplemented by flash or continuous light, to selectively highlight structures, colors, and atmospheres. His works convey stillness and contemplative presence while simultaneously awakening an awareness of the fragile beauty and vulnerability of the oceans.
Depending on the underwater situation, depth, and available light, he uses natural lighting, supplemented by flash or continuous light, to selectively highlight structures, colors, and atmospheres. His works convey stillness and contemplative presence while simultaneously awakening an awareness of the fragile beauty and vulnerability of the oceans.
