Belfast Photo Festival 2019: Icons by Cortis and Sonderegger

Cortis and Sonderegger’s on going project is called ‘Icons,’ where they play seductively with iconic images from international photographic history and reproduce them as three dimensional models that are astonishingly close to the original scene.

‘Swiss-based artists Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger presented themselves with a challenge: to recreate some of the world’s most iconic images in their studio. In a bit of self-deprecating irony, they decided to start with the world’s most expensive photograph (at the time), Andreas Gursky’s Rhein II After all, the money wasn’t coming in for their own work, but at least they could have some fun.’ (https://www.lensculture.com/articles/jojakim-cortis-and-adrian-sonderegger-ikonen-history-s-classic-images-re-created-in-the-studio)