Danish Photography

ANNE LASS "Red Willow" (2020). Edition: 30+2 AP. Signed and numbered. Certificate of Authenticity included. Hahnemühle Rag 308 g. Available in 2 sizes.

Anne Lass (b. 1978) is an acclaimed Danish-German photographer living and working on the Danish island of Bornholm. Her richly descriptive, medium-format color photographs present an eclectic mix of places, objects or individuals rooted in a quiet still life tradition merging documentary form and poetic tenderness.

The Red Willow work is from her widely internationally exhibited Low Season series. Anne Lass was a finalist at Helsinki Photo Festival's Nordic Village 2021. The works for her series Low Season, were photographed on Bornholm during the winters 2020-21. The project has a documentary starting point and describes life on Bornholm outside the high season period. The project is furthermore a visual study of artificial light situations both outside and inside. Only present light sources have been used both in the homes and outside. The combination of artificial light might remind of film-stills and has references to the Twin Peaks series. Lass says "A series from the 90s, which has had a great impact on my life - my first visual encounter with good and evil and a distinctive mood, color and music that has triggered my own imagination about life and people in rural areas. However, the narrative is kept very open and invites the viewer to use the works as a projection surface for own memories and imagination." Low Season is photographed analogoue with a medium format camera. Another Place Press published in 2022 a book about the Low Season project with 46 works with an essay by Danish writer Dennis Gade Kofod.

Anne Lass investigates different aspects of human living space in the beginning of our 21st century. She is especially keen on urban cityscapes, where she finds conflict areas that influence her images: conflicts of functionalism and individual development, the association with nature, the concourse of construction and vastness and, last but not least, to human interaction.

https://www.annelass.com

The work can be explored in our Virtual Art Gallery: https://visit.virtualartgallery.com/helphoto-selected-darlings