
Featured in Our Culture Mag — Dave Thomas on My Photographs for Hauschka’s "What If" Album artwork
4 December 2021 · Our Culture Mag · Feature
I was pleased to discover an interview in Our Culture - by Konstantinos Pappis with graphic designer and illustrator dlt (Dave Thomas), exploring two decades of his work in album art.
Among the albums discussed is Hauschka´s "What If" for which I created the photographs later used by dlt for the album artwork.
Excerpt from the interview:
“… For What If, he’d found a photographer that he really liked, her name was Nicola Hackl-Haslinger. And he picked out a few images that he loved, and I thought that really struck a chord, especially the close ups of some of the things where you weren’t really sure what it was. It’s elements of, like, the inside of old analog machines, so there is this sort of industrial, technological feel to it. And when you hear Hauschka’s music, even though it is played on a piano, because he has a background in more electronic music from years and years ago, he brings in that sort of feel of the rhythms of electronic and dance, but to analog instruments. So with this particular record, I loved that the subject matter of the some of the photography, you could couldn’t quite place what it was. …”