The Danube is the European river par excellence. It flows through ten states – Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova, the Ukraine, and Romania – and thus more countries and landscapes than any other river on the continent. Berlin media artist Andreas Müller-Pohle has produced a fascinating portrait of this mighty river. His photographs, taken from both below and above the river’s surface, provide an “intriguing fresh vision” (Ivaylo Ditchev) of the Danube with its unique urban panoramas and natural phenomena, its bridges, harbors and factories. Müller-Pohle’s poetically documentary view of the Danube also includes the water as a chemical substrate: samples taken from the spots photographed have been chemically analyzed and the values inscribed into the image. The result is a “pictorial atlas” and a “blood count” all in one: an aesthetic and scientific compendium of Europe’s most important river, from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. – Peperoni Book
