The aesthetics of photography is central to the internationally acclaimed Danish art photographer Ebbe Stub Wittrup. His photographs are often the result of a process that creates new poetic patterns made possible only by way of the photographic medium. In the series “Presumed Reality” Ebbe Stub Wittrup presents us with a number of alpine landscapes with hikers.

The photographs were made from a box of slides from hiking trips in Norway and Switzerland in the late fifties that the artist once found and played with digitally – blocking out details or lending them greater sharpness. His playful transformation of colours, forms, light, and shadow has made the photographs into abstract pictures, where the viewer can only guess what is real – the presumed reality.

Reference: Gitte Broeng and Rune Gade: “Ebbe Stub Wittrup: ”Presumed Reality". 2011.

Provenance: Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen.