Axel Hütte is the covert Romantic and ‘landscape painter’ among today’s premier-league photographers known as the Düsseldorf School. As an explorer would, Hütte traveled to Alaska, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Germany, America, Kauai and Maui in the past eight years in search for the perfect picture. Armed with patience and a traditional large-format camera, he has waited until weather, season, light and allover conditions were just right at the same time. All these landscapes have a distant and unreal quality. Be it the glaciers with their magical blue gleam or the lush green opulence of sub-tropical jungles, all images are seductively beautiful and equally complicated.
In my work I tackle various genres: architecture, portraits and landscapes. Even though the pieces are very different from each other, they do have something in common, and this is perhaps more understandable if we speak about the procedure of decisions. During the last years the landscape photography became a priority issue.
I have visited different continents. I have been traveling and that means to move and to contemplate things. But sometimes, when you are contemplating a landscape that you have already seen for hours, there is a sudden moment in which you stop.
