ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Is it fiction or reality, is it a warm rain forest or a cold german mixed forest, are these animals real live in this forest or is it a giant zoo, maybe is it a future look to a world without humans? These are the questions behind this series. I think these photos gives no answers to this questions, they should not also. Rather, they should just raise these questions and may even allow the viewer room for more questions unanswered.
All images of the series 'tierwald' combine two photographs, one misty forest (from the famous german 'Teutoburger Wald')and one exotic animal from a german zoo.

AUTHOR
Frank Machalowski is a German award winning photographic artist and photographer, who grow up in Berlin and lives and work in Leipzig today. After studying economic studies and applying himself to various trades he works today as a freelance photographer and artist. Frank first got into photography as a hobby years ago. At first he was mainly into digital photography, but then he started shifting back to film as he found the charming characteristics and atmosphere of film photography to be most fascinating. Today he develops and prints his photos on his own. His major areas of interest are the city as well as the country side, two opposite fields but to him they kind of attract.

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