Kristall ohne Liebe (literally translated “Crystal without Love”) is a visual journey into a mystic parallel world. Seen through self-built lenses, prisms and crystals, the photo series captures a psychedelic universe full of contrasts: colourful images, black and white photography, life, death, beauty and ugliness collide.
Drawing influences from Symbolist painters like Odilon Redon to the rainbow aesthetics of the Hippie culture and the German Krautrock movement, these images were photographed over a period of more than five years in Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Alexander Binder (Stuttgart-based) was born 1976 in Germany’s Black Forest area; he’s a self-taught photographer without any kind of formal art education. Staring at creation through vintage lenses, prisms and optical toys, he invites the viewer on a psychedelic trip in a universe full of contrasts: colour photographs hit on dense black and white works, life and death, beauty and ugliness collide.
