Westhafen Tower

Martin Böttcher

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Small size
Edition of 300

£35.00

20.30 x 25.40 cm paper size
17.18 x 22.86 cm image size

Medium size
Edition of 30

£350.00

50 x 60 cm paper size
37.58 x 50 cm image size

Large size
Edition of 3

£1,250.00

100 x 120 cm paper size
75.15 x 100 cm image size

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NB: This is a Lambda print on C-type photographic paper. All our prints come with a certificate signed by the artist and a unique edition number. The prints are produced with a white border around the photograph to allow for framing. We also have included some cotton gloves to protect the print during handling.

Martin Boettcher usually chooses his moments carefully, observing scenes for hours, days and sometimes weeks, deciding with great attention to detail about how to make his photograph. But when Martin saw the Westhafen Tower bathed in fog, with its internal lights zig zagging upwards like an inverted lightening strike, he knew instantly that this was a fleeting moment that he would have to grab before the fog lifted and the scene returned to something unremarkable.

He stopped the car in the middle of the Frankfurt rush hour on his way to work. Oblivious to the other drivers, Martin needed to capture this magic moment in which an accident of the weather, light and urban landscape coalesced to produce a greater whole.

It is the combination of light and shadow and how it interacts with architecture that informs Martin's work as a photographer. He will often observe how the light's relationship with a specific building changes through the day by using his camera to document and record the shift in emphasis of the architectural angles and surfaces.

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