What If
Series
Collaboration with Oscar® winning composer, producer and pianist, VOLKER BERTELMANN aka HAUSCHKA
These photographic works were created in 2017 specifically for my first collaboration with composer and pianist Volker Bertelmann, aka Hauschka. They were subsequently used as the cover artwork, booklets, and artwork for the project’s single releases.
archival pigment ink prints on Hahnemühle Bamboo 290 g/m²
museum board, museum glass
image sizes 50 × 50 cm, framed sizes 53 × 53 cm
signed, titled, dated, and editioned on verso
edition of 7 + 2 APs
article in Our Culture
An article in Our Culture features an interview by Konstantinos Pappis with graphic designer and illustrator dlt (Dave Thomas), in which they discuss, among other albums, Hauschka’s What If.
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. …"
What If was released by City Slang on 31 March 2017.
