2021 Catalogue Archive

Photographing her subjects and landscapes in infrared, German-born fashion and art photographer Celia Rogge transforms the everyday world into a dreamlike landscape. Infrared light lies just outside of the visible light spectrum, and photography taken using special equipment produces eerie colorations in foliage and sky and has a definitive crispness and sharp focus. For her series Ethereal Roots of Comporta…Raízes Etéreas Da Comporta…, Rogge traveled to Comporta, Portugal, over several years to capture the cork trees and parasol pine trees of the area. Hints of her unique method can be seen in Witness of the Ages through the dramatic, purple-toned branches and crystalline leaves and grass.