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Axel Breutigam Photography

Member profile details

Membership level

3: Artist

First name

Axel

Last name

Breutigam

Name of group or business

Axel Breutigam Photography

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City

Vancouver

Artist's website

https://www.axelbreutigam.com

Artist's biography

Axel Breutigam is a Canadian Fine Art Photographer who’s work focuses mainly on black & white Architectural, Landscape and Flower Photography.

After a successful career as an attorney and CPA in his native Hamburg, Germany, Breutigam sold his law firm and relocated to Vancouver, BC, Canada to pursue his lifelong passion of photography.

Breutigam is essentially self-taught but also studied in New Mexico under Alan Ross, Ansel Adams’ former assistant to enhanced his technical skill and to be taught how best to use digital processing techniques that emulate the darkroom prints of earlier decades.

Breutigam has established himself as a black and white photographer with a distinct and technically sophisticated style. Intriguing perspectives, bold lighting and abstract geometric shapes are characteristic of his evocative, timeless compositions.

Breutigam’s motifs of abstraction and sharply focused forms make his photographs remarkably contemporary, while the traditional techniques he practices imbue his photographs with a timeless quality.

Breutigam is represented by

Brian Marki Fine Art, Palm Springs, CA, USA

His exhibits since 2014 in Vancouver, Calgary, Portland and Palm Springs include

eight Solo Shows
thirty-three Group Shows
as well as online shows.

He also published four photo books:

Solitude - in the desert and beyond
Portland - living with bridges
Exploring Urban Forms
UBC - Different Perspectives of a Campus

Breutigam was nominated as ‘Photographer of the Year 2014’ from PPoC, BC. Within the last four years Breutigam won an Outstanding Achievement Award (1. Prize) and Nominations, Merit Awards and Honorable Mention Awards in nineteen different photographic competitions from all over the world.

Breutigam’s photographs had been published in “NF Fotografie Netzwerk” (Feb 3, 2025),”
Vancouver Guardian” (Jan 29, 2025), “Masters of Photograpy” (Jan 21, 2025),“Schwarzweiss
Magazin (issue 163), the “Digital Photographer Magazine” (issue 281) “B&W Minimalism Magazine
(issue # 40), the “Eye of Photography” (April 2024), the “AAP Magazine” (special edition # 12 and #
13), the “Shutterbug Photography Magazine” and as featured Artist online at “ArtsyShark

Artwork example

West Vancouver Community Arts Council
Located at
The Silk Purse Arts Centre
1570 Argyle Avenue
West Vancouver, BC V7V 1A1

Phone: 604-925-7292

E-mail: westvanartscouncil@shaw.ca

Silk Purse Gallery & Art Box Shop Hours:

Wed. - Sat. from 12 - 5 pm, Sun. from 12 - 4 pm

The West Vancouver Community Arts Council acknowledges that the lands on which we gather are the traditional ancestral and unceded territories of the the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) Nation. It is our privilege to celebrate arts and culture alongside them.