Joe Willems
Photography | Aerial photography
Germany
About the artist
Enthusiastically searching for ever new extraordinary motifs
Joe Willems is dedicated to the topics of architecture, aviation and travel, his passion are the perspectives from the cockpit
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Illuminated cities at night, wondrous cloud formations, magical starry skies, fascinating landscapes - Joe Willems' unusual bird's-eye views are not only breathtakingly beautiful for us viewers, they also immediately catapult us to a place reserved for only a few: The cockpit of an aeroplane.
This privileged place is held by Joe Willems as a professional pilot - always accompanied by a camera. His photographs, which seem so light and often poetic - the endless pastel expanses, the skylines in the haze, the meandering rivers - are by no means snapshots. Nothing about them is left to chance.
Joe Willems' imagination of recognising these very special, unmistakable motifs while flying over thousands of miles and his ability to catch the right moment and the right perspective create images that touch our senses.
Works | Series
Cuba
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Joe has been travelling to Cuba since 1992; he has grown very fond of the largest of the Antilles islands and its capital Havana. The series published here shows a Havana 'backstage'.
Terminal
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In "Terminal", Joe Willems allows the glassy-metallic, partly futuristic architecture of international airports to merge with the streamlined, rather organic-looking object of the aeroplane. At the same time, he captures the tension of people waiting to be picked up into another world, thus creating a symbol for the metamorphosis from local resident to traveller.
Up in the air
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The series "Up in the Air" literally takes the viewer into the cockpit and lets him participate directly in his perspectives.
San Francisco Bay Salt Flats
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Aerial views of the salt flats in San Francisco Bay
References
Solo exhibitions
2019 | Düsseldorf Photo Popup Fair No.6, Stilwerk Düsseldorf
2019 | Düsseldorf
Travel Photography, Foto Leistenschneider
2020 | Düsseldorf
Up in the Air | Terminal, Gallery Sander | Sohn
2020 | Ratingen
Up in the Air | Terminal, Greens Immobilien
2020 | Düsseldorf
Cuba 2010 - 2020, Gallery Sander | Sohn
2022 | Düsseldorf
Up in the Air, Gallery Sander | Co.