Hervorragende Landschaftsanalyse und traumtänzerisch-schöne Fotografie in einem. Hatte man sich an Miklos Gaals überformalen Bildern schon längst satt gesehen, Marc Räder schafft es mit seinem Langzeit-Projekt in Mallorca mit der Verwendung von Unschärfe zu Arbeiten dieser Methode neue Seiten abzugewinnen, die über "Spielzeuglandschaften" hinausgehen.

With his striking new book Mallorca: Island in Progress, German photographer Marc Räder has landed on a Spanish island known primarily as a Mediterranean holiday hot spot. Over the course of four years, he watched the drastic changes of landscape and architecture, and the annual flow of some ten million tourists over the island. Like an archaeologist, he digs with his camera through the different decades of a paradise being changed by the parameters of global capitalism. Räder's "docu-fiction" style turns the ordinary landscape into pictures which resemble fantastic architectural models, putting into question the veracity of his medium. The island of Mallorca has become a laboratory of tourism, a temporary paradise: a European melting pot which struggles from overusage, environmental destruction, and growing demands of established and recently-arrived inhabitants.