Jochen Lempert Books

Zoologist Jochen Lempert has consecrated himself to animal photography. Relating to his scientific fieldwork in humorous and poetic ways, his serial black-and-white photographs attempt to give order to nature. This monograph features studies of swans in swimming formation; profile portraits of duck-like birds with charismatic beaks; images of a monkey wedged under a rock and a deer crossing the street. Lempert's photographs of baby strollers lined with all variety of sheepskins are dry and funny; his studies of waves have an understated power.

In his new artist book Jochen Lempert presents 35 small and medium b/w photographs arranged and designed by himself. Lempert’s interest in the natural world as a subject has been further complemented by his exploration of the properties and materiality of the photographic image. Analogue, black and white, hand-printed in the darkroom, his photographs resist categorization and confront the canons of today’s aesthetic.