DIRECTORY 2025

Adam Neuba | Photography

Dr. Adam Neuba is a natural scientist, self-taught photographer, and artist. Adam was born in Poland and moved to Germany with his family in 1988 at the age of 10. After his school education, he studied and graduated in chemistry from the University of Paderborn, where he currently works. More than ten years ago, he started to devote himself intensively to photography, and over time, he discovered his passion for artistic close-ups and macro photography. Adam's artistic style and photographic sensibility have emerged from his inquisitive and explorative creative process. Many of his pictures have been awarded international photography prizes in recent years. 

The artist and scientist are inseparably interwoven. Many aspects of both worlds are united in photography, enabling me to take an alternative view of the world and produce new links among elements of a scene. For many years, Adam's principal task as an experimental chemist was virtually a passion: developing and producing novel, complex connections at the molecular level. In photography, he frequently creates fictitious, minimalist compositions using elements from nature and man-made technology. The two are united by an important aspect of his personality: the drive to creatively develop new things and realize them as tangible, visual objects comes from within. He uses mainly the structure, morphology, reflections, geometry, shadows, and colors of the selected elements, which, in combining perspective, the right light, plus a minimalist presentation, yield an emotionally engaging overall piece. The clarity and order of the subjects with defined lines and shapes often play a special role in the process. And yet, the photograph represents merely the first step of the artistic work. Only in the second step does he apply targeted digital post-editing in order to generate the final shape of his artistic photographic vision of the piece. This step enables Neuba as an artist to find full expression creatively and freely, completely independent of the practical limitations that sometimes come to bear in the real world of close-up photography.

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