Benjamin Antony Monn
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*1978 in Munich
Right from the beginning, the focus of Benjamin A. Monn’s photographic work concentrates on the occupation with architectural photography. Monn knowingly defies the genre’s established aim - namely the documentation and identification of buildings – and works on a new definition of architectural photography.
Since 2002 he is generating several groups of work parallel to each other.
Awards & Achievements:
2011 1st prize 2011 Photography & Illustration Awards / Category - Architecture / Canada
2010 1st prize Fotoforum Award 2010 / Category - Abstract
2010 Nominated International Masters Cup / Category - Abstract & Portrait
2009 Nominated International New York Photo Award 09 / Category - Book Project
2009 Nominated International Color Award 09 / Category - Architecture
2008 12 honorable mentions International Photography Award / California
2008 1st and 2nd prize Prix de la Photographie Paris/ France
2008 6th prize Rodenstock Photo Award International / Germany
2008 Nominated Sony World Photography Award / Cannes
2008 Honored and selected Celeste Art Prize 08 / Berlin-Germany
2008 1st prize Hasselblad Master Award / Category - Architecture
2005 3rd prize Nikon Photo Contest International / Category - Documentary
Exhibitions:
2010 Solo Exhibition "BAM Photography" at Designraum / Munich
2009 Group Exhibition "Hasselblad Masters 08" at Gallery Contributed / Berlin
2009 Group Exhibition „Uprising Six" at Gallery Candela Project / Munich
2009 Group Exhibition "Hasselblad Masters 08" at Gallery Villa Ruh / Zingst
2008 Group Exhibition "Px3 Award" at Gallery Acte 2 / Paris, France
2008 Group Exhibition "Perfect Form Rodenstock Award" at IHK Artrium / Munich
2007 Solo Exhibition "Fragmente" at Gallery A/K/A / Munich, Germany
2005 Solo Exhibition "Robots" at Serviceplan AD-Agency / Munich, Germany
2005 Group Exhibition "Part One charity exhibition" at Alte Gaertnerei / Munich
2005 Solo Exhibition "A-Symmetrie" at Artroom Felix / Munich, Germany
2004 Group Exhibition "Heimweg Projekt" at Museum Haus der Kunst / Munich
2004 Group Exhibition "Heimweg Projekt" at Gallery Martin Kudlek / Cologne
2004 Group Exhibition "Heimweg Projekt" at Gallery Zink & Gegner / Munich
Interaktion
Beyond the examination of architectural forms and landscape design, the photographer deals with an advanced concept of portrait photographs. Under the title INTERAKTION he designs black-and-white photos of faces in a close- up view, which are linked, by double exposure, to ornamental and natural structures. The two- dimensionality of a totally colour reduced face interacts with the spatial and plane structures of branches or cracked glass and so abstracts the human countenance to a plane (facial) landscape.
Interaktion
Title: Interaktion 1
Year: 2007
Print: Lightjet Monochrome Print
Mount: BACK MOUNT TO ALUMINUM AND FRONT MOUNT TO WHITE GLASS, FRAMED IN A WHITE MUSEUMBOX
Art-Nr.: ID-BAM-In-01