Jan Erik Waider

ABOUT

Like a needle in a compass, graphic designer and photographer Jan Erik Waider keeps being drawn north. It is here where he can not only satisfy the call of his wanderlust but also find the motives his passion for photography longs for.

Far north on the coast of Iceland, by the glaciers in Greenland and next to the freezing North Sea he has discovered landscapes which come to life through their contradictions: when water forms mountains, when it is as bright as day at night, when in the freezing cold things come to life – that is when Jan Erik Waider takes a photograph.

What the viewer sees is not merely the image captured by the camera; the photographer completes the motives with discreet and careful post-processing inspired by his own impressions. Thus we not only see the picture of a scene but also the emotions felt by the photographer.

In these sweeping and deserted landscapes Jan Erik Waider replaces our fast-paced life with the perseverance of waiting for the perfect moment to take the picture. Conscious solitude replaces the constant pressure of civilization – and the results are photographs which feed our yearnings.

Jan Erik Waider was born in 1984 in Darmstadt. He studied Media Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Schwäbisch Hall and is currently living in Nuremberg. He has been a freelance graphic designer for over ten years and his passion are the photographic journeys to the northern lands. Iceland has become like a second home and a personal haven.