Love in a Misty Forest – Portugal | Gerald Berghammer

LOVE IN A MISTY FOREST – PORTUGAL | GERALD BERGHAMMER
Love in the Mist Forest is an atmospheric black-and-white fine art photograph by Austrian photographer Gerald Berghammer, capturing two ancient, twisted laurel trees emerging through dense mist in the Fanal forest on Madeira, Portugal. Their sculptural trunks and irregular branches create powerful organic silhouettes, while the surrounding fog gradually dissolves the ancient Laurisilva landscape into a soft, ethereal background.

The dominant tree in the foreground anchors the composition with its dark, expressive form, while a second tree recedes gently into the mist, creating a striking sense of depth and isolation. Subtle tonal transitions across the forest floor and luminous fog emphasise the weathered textures, distinctive shapes and sculptural character of the trees.

Combining the ancient laurel forest of Madeira with minimalist composition and refined black-and-white photography, the artwork conveys stillness, mystery and timelessness. Its restrained, contemplative aesthetic makes it particularly well suited to contemporary and minimalist interiors and to collectors of landscape, nature and black-and-white fine art photography.


MADE TO ORDER
Experience the art of personalisation. Each artwork is carefully made to order, including the frame, and tailored to your style. Choose from a range of image sizes, finishes, and frame options to suit your preferences. Whether classic or modern, we have the perfect piece for your home or office.


EDITION NUMBERS
All photographs are produced in a limited edition for each format, making them highly collectable works of art. Every artwork by Gerald Berghammer also comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. Once the edition has sold out, the work will no longer be produced in that size.

FINE ART PRINT ONLY
Printed as an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, with a 4 cm white border for easy framing. Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta is a premium FineArt inkjet paper made from 100% cotton, featuring a baryta coating and a smooth, subtly glossy surface. It combines the distinctive feel of cotton rag with the classic look of baryta photographic paper.


BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTO ON DIBOND – ILFORD BLACK-AND-WHITE PAPER
This black-and-white print is produced on Ilford panchromatic paper, a highly sensitive material enhanced with optical brighteners. Brilliant whites and deep blacks give the image strong impact, while high optical density preserves the original tonality with crisp contrast. For added protection, the print is finished with a protective laminate.

The print is professionally mounted to an aluminium Dibond panel. It is available either frameless or framed in an aluminium ArtBox, in black or white. Additional frame colours are available on request.


FRAMELESS
With this option, the artwork appears to float. A 15 mm aluminium mounting profile is fixed to the reverse, fully concealed from the front, and doubles as the hanging system. Supplied ready to hang.

ALUMINIUM ARTBOX
The artwork is presented in a premium aluminium frame with a 25 mm profile depth. It sits flush to the wall using a gallery-rail hanging system. Available in black or white. For other frame colours, please contact us. Ready to hang.

ALUMINIUM FRAME WITH MOUNT
The aluminium frame is 1 cm wide and 2.5 cm deep, available in black or white. The image is produced as an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta and mounted to an acid-free backing. The mount is white and museum-quality. The artwork is protected by anti-reflective glass (70% UV protection). Ready to hang.

COPYRIGHT
All rights reserved. No reproduction, distribution or modification without prior written permission.

For very large-format artworks, the aluminium mounting profile may vary depending on size and technical requirements. If you have any questions, please contact us.

THE ARTIST
Gerald Berghammer is an Austrian fine art photographer and the winner of multiple international awards. His work is distinguished by a clear, timeless visual language—reduced compositions, monochrome motifs, and long exposures that distil light, atmosphere, and quiet tension into precise, contemplative images. At once restrained and emotionally resonant, Berghammer’s photographs balance silence and structure, inviting a slower way of seeing.

At the centre of his practice is minimalist landscape photography. Horizons dissolve into haze, water becomes a soft plane of tone, and lines and textures emerge as subtle anchors within open space. By stripping the motif down to its essentials, Berghammer shifts attention to nuance: gradients, surfaces, transitions, and the fragile boundary between presence and absence. The resulting works do not aim to describe a place, but to evoke a state—an encounter with atmosphere, time, and stillness.

Berghammer works with both analogue and digital processes, selecting the medium that best serves each subject and the intended tonal character. Long exposure is a defining artistic tool, transforming fleeting weather and light into condensed, minimal forms. This rigorous reduction lends his images their distinctive calm and graphic clarity, allowing them to resonate in contemporary exhibition contexts as well as in architectural and interior settings.

For collectors and for interior and project-based applications, Gerald Berghammer offers professionally produced, museum-quality fine art prints in strictly limited editions. The works are made to archival standards and are suitable for private and commercial spaces—from homes and offices to hospitality, corporate, and architectural projects.

ANALOGUE PHOTOGRAPH / BLACK-AND-WHITE ONLY
Gerald Berghammer uses analogue film cameras in medium, panoramic and large formats to create his distinctive photographs. For his analogue work, he uses black-and-white negative film in 6×6 cm, 6×7 cm, 6×17 cm, and 4×5-inch formats. He develops the negatives himself in his own darkroom. Only the negatives that meet his exacting quality standards are selected for inclusion in his portfolio.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY / BLACK-AND-WHITE AND COLOUR
For digital black-and-white and colour photography, Gerald uses a medium-format camera. Only digital medium format meets his exacting standards, enabling him to produce large-scale artworks without having to compromise on the finest details in the image. The precise tonal gradations are another major advantage.

SHIPPING
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Orders are dispatched within ten (10) working days. Standard delivery is made in protective packaging to the delivery address provided by the customer. We offer worldwide shipping.

Please note that shipments to destinations outside the European Union may be subject to customs duties, import taxes, and/or other charges imposed by the destination country. Any such fees are payable by the recipient and are not included in the shipping charges.

TRACKING
Upon dispatch, the customer will receive a shipping confirmation containing a tracking number issued by our certified shipping partners. The invoice will be provided as a PDF attachment for printing.