Limited Area

source: phaidon

If your computer is knocking on a bit you’ve possibly experienced that scary moment when the screen freezes and the image in front of you appears to be distorted, as if time has stopped but gravity has kept on going until the image in front of you appears to have melted. Well that pretty much sums up what German photographer Robert Schlaug brilliantly captures in his series Limited Area. The series portrays the limit of human experiences via everyday landscape photographs.

Schlaug encourages viewers to break their traditional mind-set of a landscape by provoking and encouraging a second and more thoughtful evaluation of each scene.

“In a time when one considers the possibilities of humanity unlimited, we experience its limitations on a daily basis,” Schlaug tells Phaidon. “Sometimes we feel we’ve run into a wall or stand in front of a precipice, not knowing how to proceed further. Or suddenly there opens up before us an insurmountable wall, and we know no way out. Even our thoughts and our imagination constantly finds their limits.”

Using digital manipulation, Schlaug creates uneven divides by dragging streaks of colour across each section of his photographs resulting in a visual experience that he hopes will “raise awareness in times of total sensory overload.”

View the entire gallery for the Limited Area series above. To learn more about Robert Schlaug, you can visit his site here. And take a moment to get to know other iconic photographers with The Photography Book which showcases 500 profound images from the Royal Wedding to the first moon landing courtesy of photographic greats such as Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cecil Beaton, Robert Doisneau, Herb Ritts, Robert Capa, Josef Koudelka and Pierre et Gilles, to name a few..
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source: slate

Robert Schlaug would like for you to spend a little more time looking at his work.

“I think our consciousness is exposed to an incredible number of daily stimuli,” Schlaug explained via email. “Every minute we take on a variety of images—only exceptional images remain in our minds. I think we have lost the glance at the little things along the way. With my images I want to work against this.”

One of Schlaug’s methods of getting people to slow down is to view his series “Limited Area.” It’s a series of landscape photographs that have been digitally processed and manipulated. Schlaug acknowledged that many critics have said the series isn’t technically demanding and requires little effort, but that’s inconsequential to Schlaug.
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source: the-capsule

Photographed by German photographer Robert Schlaug, Limited Area explores the possibility of the limit to the human mind, and even the boundaries of traditional landscape photography.

“Sometimes we feel we’ve run into a wall or stand in front of a precipice, not knowing how to proceed further. Or suddenly there opens up before us an insurmountable wall, and we know no way out. Even our thoughts and our imagination constantly finds their limits.” – Robert Schlaug
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source: apartv

Robert Schlaug est un photographe allemand autodidacte. Sa série Limited Area est une simple manipulation numérique. Un trois fois rien, presque réalisable sur Paint.
Et pourtant, il se dégage de cette série, un je-ne-sais-quoi d’apocalyptique, comme une photo issue du générique de la Quatrième Dimension, une chute quantique aussi violente que spontanée de notre environnement.
Comme si Robert Schlaug nous dévoilait tout un pan d’une réalité invisible mais voisine à la notre, sensation de fin imminente, de proximité de l’échéance finale.
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source: culturainquieta

El fotógrafo alemán Robert Schlaug, representa en su serie, Área Limitada, los límites de la experiencia humana a través de fotografías de paisajes cotidianos.

Schlaug anima a los espectadores a romper su tradicional forma de ver un paisaje, provocando y alentando una segunda y más reflexiva evaluación de cada escena.

“En un momento en que se consideran ilimitadas las posibilidades de la humanidad, experimentamos sus limitaciones diariamente,” dice Schlaug Phaidon. “A veces sentimos que nos hemos topado con una pared o que estamos de pie frente a un precipicio, sin saber cómo seguir adelante. O de repente se abre ante nosotros un muro infranqueable, y sabemos que no hay salida. Incluso nuestros pensamientos y nuestra imaginación encuentran constantemente sus límites “.

Usando la manipulación digital, Schlaug, crea divisiones desiguales, arrastrando vetas de color a través secciones de sus fotografías, permitiendo así una experiencia visual que pretende “expresar momentos de sobrecarga sensorial total.”