Time has always had the power to fascinate, amaze and frighten men. The greatest merit of this sense of sublime can certainly be attributed to its ephemerality and one of the most interesting challenges for visual artists is capturing it. Neil Krug, a famous photographer and art director in the music world, helped to give a face to this transience.
In addition to having edited for a long time the image of Lana Del Rey, through the covers of Ultraviolence, Honeymoon and Lust for life, among the collaborations of Krug we also find Tame Impala. To capture the album The Slow Rush, released in 2020, Krug and the band went to Kolmanskop, an abandoned city in the Namibian desert. It used to be one of the richest European colonies, now what remains are large sand dunes high up to the ceiling of luxury buildings.
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The result reveals surreal interiors, characterized by very bright blue and red. The intention was to recreate a family environment, something already seen and experienced, but hidden at the same time. In several interviews Krug says that he has always wanted to avoid the literal interpretation of something, preferring, instead, a more dreamy, mystical and sometimes psychedelic style that fits perfectly with the music of Kevin Parker (frontman of Tame Impala).
As we can see, time is the protagonist of the audiovisual narration, translated into Krug’s photography in which greater attention is given to the aura you want to capture rather than to the image itself. To learn more about his work, you can follow him on his Instagram account.
Article by Cobie
