Thematic Works - Topical issues of immediate relevance to Achim Koerfer and to society in general serve as inspiration for his photo sequences. The fine art photographer rises to the challenge of taking a stand and creates photographic manifestos to express his concern in terms of striking imagery and vivid colors intended to polarise opinion and invite liberating controversy. The motifs which appear to be products of expert digital compositing are actually created employing techniques of conventional photography alone. To this effect, Koerfer selects his subjects with utmost concentration, an unerring eye for in situ composition and a highly intuitive eiditic grasp of skillfully layered exposures. The result is beguiling images of intrinsic beauty whose mesmeric interplay of light and color work an inescapable charm upon the beholder.

Order here - The motifs of the sequences showcased here are available in the utmost quality as digital prints in classic style as fine art print, canvas, poster, with passe- partout, laminated and / or framed, or as photo mount and greeting card from RedBubble. In the afore- mentioned media and, additionally, in advanced and innovative style as digital print on plexiglass, aluminum (aludibond) and fine art wallpaper, these motifs can also be ordered from Fine Art Print.

>> Slideshow >> Ever more and increasingly younger people define themselves through their material possessions. Their motto: "You are what you buy." Trend and brand consciousness not only determine their consumer behaviour but serve as measure of their self- esteem. Gone are the days when the individual endeavours to distinguish himself through intrinsic values such as character, intelligence, virtue or modesty. "The more, the better" is the new credo, ostentatious display the new chic.

Mindless consumerism is not only the order of the day, but also raison d'être of a rampantly capitalistic society which has supplanted "being" with "having" while bankrupting itself of all content and thus hardly offering anything in the way of ideals. Even those who could ill afford to do so, succumb to the enticements of the embarassment of purported riches on offer and to the tantalising mirages of advertising claims ...more

>> Slideshow >> The future is no longer allowed to develop unassisted, nor to grow of ist own accord. It is being grown, cultured, bred. Performance and Profit are the relentless imperatives for the currently prevailing race, the selection for perfection. Almost imperceptibly, there is an emergent, dangerous new world thanks to an incalculable interplay of encroachments upon nature by Man.

By means of systematic mutation and artificial selection, our flora is being refashioned by the hand of Man in an overweening attempt to improve on the perfection of Nature, to alter, adapt and so degrade Creation to a mere convenience for Man’s needs. State- of- the- art genetic engineering bears ever stranger flowers, whose unnatural beauty dazzles the eye and thus obscures their inherent dangers ...more

>> Slideshow >> In the overwhelming flood of the New Media, Society has come to accord ever greater importance to appearances, succumbing ever more deeply and mindlessly to the lure of superficial beauty and make- believe. As a result, content and intrinsic values fall into ever greater disregard. Never before have the caprices and dictates of soulless fashion been disseminated, promoted and imposed so sweepingly and irresistibly as via the powerful instrument of the New Media.

And the trends of today, unprecedentedly fast- moving, intentionally but mercifully short- lived and disposable, are conceived out of purely commercial considerations and entirely lack aesthetic and creative merits and imperatives. In the present darwinistic feeding frenzy of trends, original ideas are reduced to a mass commodity and people, to the status of ostentatiously consuming showroom dummies. But then it has always been the way of the world that entire generations, age- groups and social strata have been forced to live out stereotypes alien to their nature ...more