Helmut Albrecht
(904) 261-2535                 5047 First Coast Hwy, Fernandina Beach, FL 32034    e-mail: info@waterwheelgallery.com
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Artists Biography


Tim Barnwell, an excellent photographer of portraits from characters in the Appalachian Mountains, describes best what I want to achieve with my pictures: “I don’t want to take photographs, I want to give them“.

My experience with “giving“ pictures started in Germany.  I was nine years old, when my godfather gave me an Agfa box as my first camera.  From there my photographic journey started: it took me from capturing nature and castles in the Bavarian Alps to my first attempts of architecture and travel photography.

Being an engineer by trade, I was always obsessed by seeing and capturing structures in my work.  Lately, I am also experiencing more and more the beauty of the “structure“ of nature as part of my portfolio.

Photography has so much meaning and importance for me to express myself; it is
•painting without a paint brush
•working with a given pallet of colors and forms
•looking for structure and chaos
•looking for beauty and the ugly
•looking for laughter and tears
•working with and without rules
•reducing color to light and dark
•putting a frame around the big picture to show the lost detail.

It is rewarding to me as an artist when you pause and reflect looking at one of my pictures. Your interpretation will be different then mine, however I hope you still take the picture as a gift.

I am very happy, having the opportunity to show my pictures to you and am thankful to my uncle for being my beloved godfather, photography mentor and coach.

My fine art prints had been shown at the “little art show” in Toronto, at the Ritter Gallery in Bellport, NY, the Clawflowers Gallery in Greenport, NY, at a juried show of the Eastern Long Island Art Alliance and “as picture of the day” by Eastman Kodak and now represented by the Waterwheel Art Gallery on Amelia Island.





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