Uranos (Hexaptych)

Photographer

Marcel van Beek

Category

Fine Art Photography - Open Theme

Company

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2026

Country / Region

Germany

Uranos is a black-and-white meditation on the sky as a primordial body rather than a landscape. Referring to the Greek god of the heavens, the series moves between weight and dissolution, monumentality and vapor. Removed from descriptive color and geography, the cloud forms become archetypal: hovering, colliding, opening, withholding. These photographs do not depict weather so much as presence - the sky as an ancient, animating force. Uranos proposes the heavens not as backdrop, but as a mythic power: distant, corporeal, sublime, unstable, and endlessly becoming. At once material and spectral.

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Photographer / Company

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Country / Region

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