00000nam a2200000 c 4500 991172341683005501 20250505113719.0 240115s2023 pl a 000 1 eng d 9788396596932 839659693X (OCoLC)1417267854 (EXLNZ-41SLSP_NETWORK)991172341683005501 (41SLSP_UBS)9972972608805504 (41SLSP_UBS)9972972608805504 AVA ger rda CH-ZuSLS UBS A100 eng fre GT3190 .H86 2023 090 23sdnb Humka, Hubert 1983- (DE-588)1364609126 pht aut Eternal U Hubert Humka (photographs and texts) 1st edition Warsaw, Poland Blow Up Press [2023] 1 Band (nicht paginiert) Illustrationen sti rdacontent txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Visual concept of the book and design: Aneta Kowalczyk Main text is blind embossed "The 1st edition of this book has been printed in 550 copies."--Colophon Signed and numbered by the author "Eternal U is a story about the so-called good death and eternity. Through photographs of forests being natural cemeteries where the dead are buried in biodegradable urns or coffins, marked only with a previously selected tree, Humka shows a certain way of thinking about us as a code, an immortal chain of some larger universe. During life, we all draw from it, to later give it a part of ourselves: 'In each of these places, the forest itself, giving eternal rest to the people buried there, was the most important element for me,' - says Hubert Humka. - 'There I photographed the soil in which they rested and the bark of the trees they became. I like to think that the roots of these trees, drawing from the people buried under them, include them in their existence, that nothing ends, that it is only our human self that changes. We become a tree, a forest, part of something bigger that reaches beyond us. We connect with the universe, we become infinite.' Eternal U is the second, after Death Landscapes (2018), joint publishing project of Hubert Humka and BLOW UP PRESS. The book was created in the spirit of sustainable development, respect for the world and the surrounding nature, on ecological recycled papers. Its main axis are photographs of the forest (life), accompanied by negatives (death) and embossed text about leaving (traces we leave behind). 'With this book I close my own trilogy of death,' - says the artist. - 'In Evil Man I portrayed victims of homicide and suicide. In Death Landscapes I talked about landscapes tainted by trauma and death. In turn, Eternal U, in my opinion, brings peace, tames death, shows its completely different face.'"--Publisher's website Hubert Humka (b. 1983) is a visual artist and photographer, focusing on topics that describe human nature, its light and dark side. His work portrays humanity in a non-obvious way, through the prism of landscape, crime scenes or, as recently, natural burial places. He holds his Master and PhD degrees from the Lodz Film School's Photography faculty where he also lectures. His projects have been shown at exhibitions in Polish and foreign museums and galleries, including: Contemporary Museum Wrocław, Leica Gallery Warsaw, Maison de la Photographie Lille, Claude Samuel Paris, as well as during international photography festivals, such as Les Rencontres d'Arles (France), Transphotographiques (France), Fotofestiwal Lodz (Poland), among others. He is a finalist of the Prix Voie Off Selection at Les Rencontres d'Arles Off Festival (France) and Photo Diploma Award (Poland). Author of acclaimed books: Evil Man (Lodz Film School Press, 2015), nominated to the 2019 Prix Bob Calle du livre d'artiste Death Landscapes (BLOW UP PRESS, 2018), and Eternal U (BLOW UP PRESS, 2023). He lives and works in Paris, France Text englisch und französisch Artists' books Poland Trees in art Natural burial Fiction Cemeteries Pictorial works Forests and forestry Pictorial works Photography, Artistic Photography, Abstract Landscape photography Burial Cemeteries Natural burial Pictorial works Sépulture Cimetières Photographie artistique Enterrement écologique Ouvrages illustrés Cimetières Ouvrages illustrés Livres d'artistes Pologne Arbres dans l'art Enterrement écologique Romans, nouvelles, etc Photographie abstraite Photographie de paysages art photography aat photobooks aat artists' books (books) aat Artists' books lcgft Photobooks lcgft Livres de photographies rvmgf Livres d'artistes rvmgf Künstlerbuch gnd-content A100 102N UBH AN I 994 (41SLSP_UBS)9972972608805504 102N Ex. Nr. 399/550 ; signiert von Hubert Humka 12 UBH AN I 994 A100 (41SLSP_UBS)9972972608805504 (41SLSP_UBS)9972972608805504 (41SLSP_UBS)9972972608805504 NELA1002505 local (41SLSP_UBS)9972972608805504