23.5.12 Das Festival PHotoEspana in Madrid verleiht verschiedene Preise, darunter den “Best Photography Book of the Year Award”. Für 2012 geht die Auszeichnung an Lukas Felzmann: Swarm, erschienen bei Lars Müller Publishers, Schweiz.  Die Jury schreibt in ihrer Begründung: “Swarm is a breathtaking photographic series exploring the flock movements of migrating birds. The photographs offer a unique view of the beauty but also the complexity and diversity of shape variations. A swarm sitting on the ground mirrors the surface of the earth like a skin, but as soon as it lifts up it becomes a fluid three-dimensional system in constant flux. This aerial ballet reveals a rhythm of upward explosion and downward, cascading movement. At times the forms seem to explode, blooming like flowers or expanding outward like fireworks. At other times they appear more stable, slowly drifting like a negative image of stellar constellations. Swarm looks up into the sky and follows flight through the dynamic landscape of streams of air.”

Informationen zum Buch siehe auch: www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/de/catalogue-photography/swarm