Hubert Endl Uses Intentional Camera Movement to Turn Landscapes Into Abstract Paintings

Key facts

• Hubert Endl works with Intentional Camera Movement (ICM), moving the camera during exposure to loosen the visible world from fixed form.
• Endl began photography at seventeen using roll film and darkroom work, then left it at the margins for nearly four decades while working as an IT manager in banking.
• He began his history with Canon through the AE 1 in the 1970s and now uses Canon R7 and R6 Mark II mirrorless cameras.
• "Golden Drought" is considered by Endl one of his best works and was made with an in-camera multiple exposure: a slow camera movement for the first exposure, then the camera turned upside down to repeat that movement for the second.
• "The Eye of Consumption" was made in Rijeka, and "Resting" shows people on a bench in Opatija looking toward the Adriatic.
• "Colourful Market" was made at an African market festival and layers figures, tents, warm reds, golds, and blue sky through multiple exposure.
• Endl usually keeps only about twenty percent of images after his first editing process, with just a few ultimately meeting his standards.
• He has learned from ICM artists Eva Polak, Kate Fish, and Roxanne Bouché Overton, participated in the ICMPhotoMag network and the ICM Academy, and his work has appeared in several on-screen Artboxy exhibitions.