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May 9, 2023
News, Press

Review: NDR Kultur (Germany)

Der Band mit künstlerischen Fotografien von Mat Hennek ist ein wunderschönes Buch voller Naturaufnahmen rund ums Thema "Wasser".

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April 6, 2023
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Hot off the Press: New Steidl book Sounds of Spheres

Hot of the Press SOUNDS OF SPHERES now available! In the atmospheric photographs of “Sounds of Spheres,” Mat Hennek creates striking impressions of how we imaginatively engage

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November 6, 2022
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Woodlands and Beyond… on Medici.tv

Hélène Grimaud transforms the genre of the recital, integrating a performance of solo piano works by Romantic and Impressionist composers with a multimedia experience. Her recita

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September 3, 2022
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Sounds of Spheres – new book with Steidl

In the atmospheric photographs of Sounds of Spheres, Mat Hennek creates striking impressions of how we imaginatively engage with nature. Whether depicting the world from

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April 24, 2021
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Interview: The Kitab

  Article source: The Kitab KT: How did you get into photography? When/What was your first encounter with photography? MH: After my school time, I started to travel around the

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November 4, 2020
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Video release: Hélène Grimaud – Woodlands and beyond…

Together with photographer Mat Hennek, French star pianist Hélène Grimaud, comes up with a multimedia concert project at the Grand Hall of Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. Grimaud’

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August 28, 2020
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Neue Sachbücher: Stillgestellt im Bildraum

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June 19, 2020
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NDR Kultur: Leere Stadtlandschaften mit poetischer Kraft

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June 7, 2020
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Frames Magazine: The Force of the Missing – review of “Silent Cities” by Mat Hennek

The Force of the Missing – review of “Silent Cities” by Mat Hennek reat photography, like great literature or dance or music or art of any sort, is more idea than anything el

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April 15, 2020
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Wired Magazine: Prophetic Images of an Empty World From Before the Pandemic

Prophetic Images of an Empty World From Before the Pandemic Empty streets. Abandoned city squares. Silent airports. The images made by German-born photographer Mat Hennek instantly

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I am thrilled to share that my latest Steidl book, I am thrilled to share that my latest Steidl book, Sounds of Spheres, has been showcased in the NDR Kultur "Bildschöne Bücher" ("Beautiful Books") series! Please check the link in my bio. 

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Beautiful morning… and a little peephole of natu Beautiful morning… and a little peephole of nature to water and endless horizon. 

Pacific Coast, Santa Barbara 

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Watching the clouds go by…

Images in order of appearance

Mitch Epstein
@mitch_epstein
Rocks and Clouds
Image: Clouds #89, New York City 2015 

William Eggleston
@egglestonartfoundation
At Zenith

Mat Hennek
@mat.hennek
Sounds of Spheres
Image: I Sicily 01 2015

Joe Ractliffe
Photographs 1980s - now
Image: afternoon storm light with tv aerial

Tenzing Dakpa
@dakpa.dakpa
The Hotel

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Happy to be back home in California - with @helene Happy to be back home in California
- with @helene.grimaud 

photo 📷 : @dadesign

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In the atmospheric photographs of “Sounds of Spheres,” Mat Hennek creates striking impressions of how we imaginatively engage with nature. Whether depicting the world from a traditional receding perspective—a misty landscape at sunrise, snow-laden branches, palm trees bending in the wind—or from above—the serpentine curves of a river, fossil-like patterns in sand, the churning surface of the ocean—Hennek does not record nature but captures the apparitions it evokes. Through the soft blurring of edges, lyrical color and a focus on pattern, his images move between representation and abstraction, simultaneously capturing and veiling form. The idea of the sphere links subjects that may at first seem unrelated: a rock posed like a face at the top of a mountain, the glowing ball of the setting sun, the round shapes of ice crystals in a miniature frozen universe, and the great globe of the Earth upon which all this unfolds. And yet Hennek’s fascination with spheres is never merely formal: through the “sounds of spheres” he taps into the harmonizing musical resonances of all living things—secret but accessible, if we only listen closely enough. For more information and to order click the link in our bio. Free shipping worldwide.

First image: CH FLÜELAPASS 06 2010
Second image: E PALMEN IM STURM 01 2004

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Good old Germany - Blankenese, Hamburg ‘23 #lan Good old Germany - Blankenese, Hamburg ‘23

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