The Earth'S Formation

• Photographer
  Franz G. Messenbaeck
• Agency / Studio
  Fg Messenbaeck
• Technical Info
  Different Cameras And Lenses, Film And Digital
• Photo Date
  1993 - 2022

Photography plays with space and time. Capturing a moment of the present testifies changes for the future. In numerous places of the world reshaping can be recognized. Fault lines in the earth’s crust have formed the most bizarre formations. Where once there were seas, there are now deserts. Marks in stone are evidence of life long before us. Through selection, emphasis and reduction, an illusions of timelessness can be created. Patterns in rock formations and dune landscapes encourage abstraction, cancel out proportions, space and time, and become universal.

Franz G. Messenbaeck is a photographer and surgeon in Bischofshofen, Austria. He considers both professions as complementary. The precision of surgery influences photography, aesthetic sensibilities of photography bring advantages in surgery. His passion is landscape photography. He runs a small but fine portrait studio in the city of Bischofshofen near Salzburg in Austria. He travels a lot, mainly to the American West and to Northern Europe, where he enjoys the solitary landscapes full of structures and abstractions. These landscapes are a welcome counterpoint to the surgical work too.