More About Carsten Witte

The Secret Life of Plants by Carsten Witte

 

October 3, 2012

By LEAH LATELLA via WORLD NEWS
 

"I always felt that plants have a secret life. First, you don't recognize them, they seem to be invisible. Once they start to grow you might ask yourself who they are and what they might look like. With the start of blooming you're mesmerized by their beauty, and when you return the very next day to get a second look, they are gone."

- Carsten Witte

"Mohn" ("Poppy" in German)
German photographer Carsten Witte began shooting florals more than 20 years ago. With his ongoing project titled, "The Secret Life of Plants," which he began in 2008, Witte uses a simple photographic process and applies a bronce/gray background in a self mixed chemical process that sets it apart from other photography of plants.
"I started with some exotic flowers, but I really love dahlias, they are so mighty in their forms and colours," says Witte. "And today I am working on the fading ones."
Carsten Witte's main concern with photography is to show beauty but also with the hint of how fast it fades.

"Dahlia"


"The Secret Life of Plants"


"The Secret Life of Plants"


"Mohn"


"The Secret Life of Plants"


"The Secret Life of Plants"


"The Secret Life of Plants"


"Dahlia"


"The Secret Life of Plants"


"The Secret Life of Plants"


"Mohn"
Witte has gallery representation in Germany, Sweden, Turkey and the United States and his other projects may viewed on his website.
Requests for images from Carsten Witte's archive may be directed to The Licensing Project: www.thelicensingproject.com

     

 

 

 

 

 

Work 2

Work 1

research

 

I think it is a very interesting idea of maxing both sides of face together.

And the artist did it very well.

 

Alex John Beck

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/alex-john-beck

http://alexjohnbeck.com/

Hector Sos 

http://hectorsos.net/cover/

Justin Van Genderen

http://2046design.com/

 

 

I kind get the idea of the butterfly from this research, I like this artist. I like butterfly too.

Carsten Witte

http://carstenwitte.prosite.com/

6 pieces

Research

Nicolas Santos

http://720213.tumblr.com/

Research

 YukoShiMiZu's blog link

                                                       http://yukoart.com/category/blog/


http://kevindart.tumblr.com/ X

http://brechtnieuws.blogspot.fr/search/label/Free%20drawing X

Ronald Kurniawan

    http://ronaldkurniawan.com/new%20frameset/frameset.htm
http://ronaldkurniawan.com/

http://www.victo-ngai.com/ X

Veronique Meignaud

                                                            http://www.meignaud.com/
                                                            http://arlequine.tumblr.com/


http://www.browntownstudios.com/ ?


http://www.foxnathan.com/ X

http://www.illustrationmundo.com

Jace Wallace

                                                       http://wakkawa.iseenothing.com/

                                                                      Jason Levesque

http://iam.stuntkid.com/

Julien Pacaud

http://www.julienpacaud.com/

Mag Cover

Being myself

with people I love

Dress Series

Jeans' Women Wear

Glamourise

Night and Day 

landscape and landscape portrait

Photoshop background

on to face

Layered fore, mid and background.

Done on Photoshop