African photography exposé

Visit the Martin Osner Gallery in the Cape Quarter before the 10^th April and you’ll catch an exhibition featuring the bold work of German photographer Klaus Tiedge.  On show will be images from two of his African collections, Pride of Africa, and KIBURI. 

After working in the commercial photography realm for more than 20 years, Klaus decided in 2008 to turn his hand instead to fine art photography, starting a project documenting and capturing the African continent.

Unlike traditional wildlife photography, Tiedge’s work makes distinct use of the digital manipulation tools available today, creating stylized and glossy images where the animals play as important a role as the environment in which they are captured.  The end result requires a lot of patience, and Klaus says he has to wait hours, days or even weeks for the perfect moment.  It is the unpredictable nature of the art – unlike his previous career – that makes him so passionate about wildlife photography.

In this exhibition, Klaus shows off another of his many talents – portrait photography. In the past few years, his travels have taken him to the villages of the Himba in Namibia, Bushmen near Botswana and the Masai in Kenya, where he has aimed to capture the original and tribal look of these people before modern society swallows up any vestige of their heritage.

We would encourage all lovers of photography to go and check out Klaus’ varied and beautiful work.

More info: www.klaustiedge.com