The "sublime" world by Josef Hoflehner

Josef Hoflehner lives in Austria, but works everywhere. He has long held a fascination with secluded places and empty spaces and since the early 1990′s, he has worked in some of the most remote and forbidding areas of the world; including Antarctica, Vietnam, China, Japan, the Yemen, Iceland, and the Deep South of the United States.

His black and white images are seen in dreamtime – where everything is slowed down and the landscapes are reduced to elemental and painterly shapes; they are sublime, and quiet – and offer us something not picked up by the naked eye in real-time. The prints are beautiful; and are reminiscent, in their technical purity, of the great masters of early twentieth century landscape photography. The IPA (International Photography Awards) voted Hoflehner Nature Photographer of the Year 2007.