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The Disappearance of the Elephant | Photography by Erik Brede Photography & Digital Art | Hotel Gotham in Manchester. Item made of paper
The Disappearance of the Elephant | Photography by Erik Brede Photography & Digital Art | Hotel Gotham in Manchester. Item made of paper

The Disappearance of the Elephant - Photography

Featured In Hotel Gotham, Manchester, United Kingdom

Price from $500 to $5,500

A unique piece of photo art that is both amazingly decorative but also has a deep political message – Photo manipulation – political statement art.

The illegal killing of elephants for ivory is driven and sustained by demand from consumers who are willing to pay for illegal ivory and was estimates to over 22,000 illegally killed elephants in 2012.

What others say about my work
Interested in conceptual approaches to the construction of a photograph, the Norwegian photographer Brede masterfully manipulates the tools of digital transformation to create a picture of an elephant crumbling before our eyes. Conceived as a crumbling edifice, Brede brings to the fore the processes of extinction afflicted upon elephants.
– OnGallery, London, UK

Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, UV-Print on Brushed Aluminium or Chromogenic Print under acrylic glass in size up to 160x200cm.

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Erik Brede Photography & Digital Art
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2020
Jazz up your walls and bring life to your space with unique Norwegian Photo art

Erik Brede is a critically acclaimed photographer and digital artist with more than 30 years experience whose work has been exhibited and published in France, Italy, UK, the United States and Norway, and delivering unique, fine art photography to corporate, Healthcare, The Hospitality Sector, Cruise Ships and High-End Residences all over the world.

He was born in 1971 in Svolvaer, Lofoten Islands, Norway, where his photography journey started at the age of 11 after his father introduced him to the great magic of film development and post-production in his low budget darkroom. Even if the old analogue darkroom is replaced by Photoshop and Lightroom, his vision and creative ideas are still the same.

Producing a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver is what Brede’s artwork focuses on. Influenced by renowned artists like Ansel Adams and Rene Magritte, Brede creates surreal and fine digital artwork. Brede follows a conceptual approach thus utilizing a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered manner. His work focuses on concrete questions that determine our existence.

His work has published in "The Best of Photography 2014", "The Best of Photography 2015" and "International Contemporary Artist vol. X".

His two favorite quotes are "You don’t take a photograph, you make it." – Ansel Adams, and "The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do." – Andy Warhol.