![]() "The videos have between roughly 90 and 200 frames, and the small intermission clips around 20 to 60 individual shots. Most of the time, he only needed to film a sequence once, because, as he himself explains, he is an enthusiastic advocate of the first idea concept. Jan von Holleben spent a lot of time moving individual sweets slowly across the paper, then patiently pressed the shutter release of his camera after each movement. Quite incidentally, while working on the pictures, a few short, stop-motion films also emerged. The props were ordered, and ideas for the series soon began to bubble up: the diversity of possibilities for creative imagery, was as colourful, sweet and often sticky as the material itself. The impulse for the project came from a request by the »horizons zingst« Environmental Festival curator, Edda Fahrenhorst, who wanted a series dealing with the subject of sugar to complement the 2022 festival motto: “Eat It – About Food”. ![]() What happens if you are surrounded by sweet things all day long, and close to suffering from a sugar overload? The Sugar WOW series of pictures, created by the Berlin photographer over the last few months, offers one answer as do the stop-motion films he produced at the same time as the photos. ![]()
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