{"id":3891,"date":"2013-05-27T15:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:13:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Berlin-based team at ants and butterflies carries out transmedia projects in the fields of cultural education, art, sound, architecture, literature and ecology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;autoclose&quot;: false, &quot;accordionItems&quot;: [] }\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/accordion\" role=\"group\" class=\"wp-block-accordion is-layout-flow wp-block-accordion-is-layout-flow\">\n<div data-wp-class--is-open=\"state.isOpen\" data-wp-context=\"{ &quot;id&quot;: &quot;accordion-item-1&quot;, &quot;openByDefault&quot;: false }\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.initAccordionItems\" data-wp-on-window--hashchange=\"callbacks.hashChange\" class=\"wp-block-accordion-item is-layout-flow wp-block-accordion-item-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-accordion-heading\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><button aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-item-1-panel\" data-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isOpen\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.toggle\" data-wp-on--keydown=\"actions.handleKeyDown\" id=\"accordion-item-1\" type=\"button\" class=\"wp-block-accordion-heading__toggle\"><span class=\"wp-block-accordion-heading__toggle-title\"><br><strong>Profile ants and butterflies<\/strong> \u2192<\/span><span class=\"wp-block-accordion-heading__toggle-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><\/button><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div inert aria-labelledby=\"accordion-item-1\" data-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isOpen\" id=\"accordion-item-1-panel\" role=\"region\" class=\"wp-block-accordion-panel is-layout-flow wp-block-accordion-panel-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ants and butterflies is a Berlin-based, transdisciplinary collective that has been realising internet-based projects at the intersection of photography, documentation, sound art, architecture, media art and cultural education since the early 2000s. The works are often created through long-term collaborations with artists, institutions and initiatives from the fields of art, music, science and civil society.<br><br>At the heart of their photographic practice lies a documentary-essayistic approach that focuses less on spectacular individual images and more on contexts, processes and spatial relationships. Photography does not function in isolation here, but as a mediating medium within larger media structures comprising film, sound, text and digital formats. Many projects are explicitly site-specific and respond to architectural, social or historical conditions.<br><br>The photographic style is characterised by restraint, precision and a structural perspective. People, spaces and objects are captured soberly, attentively and without dramatising exaggeration. Typical features include clear compositions, controlled lighting and an interest in transitions: between the public and the private, function and meaning, everyday life and artistic conception. The images do not claim to offer a definitive interpretation, but rather open up spaces for reflection.<br><br>Thematically, ants and butterflies frequently explores fields such as<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:24px\">art and sound production in public spaces,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:24px\">architecture and the built environment,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:24px\">social and ecological issues,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:24px\">cultural education processes, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li style=\"font-size:24px\">medical and humanitarian contexts (e.g. international documentary projects).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Brief description of the style<\/strong><br><br>Calm, precise documentary photography with a strong sense of space, a serial structure and a deliberately detached, analytical stance towards the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:49px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/frank_moltedo.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frank Paul | Photo \u00a9 Nina Reingruber<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Frank Paul <\/strong>is a photographer, web designer, consultant and entrepreneur. <br>For him, analogue processes are not a passing trend but the foundation of his visual work. After training as an industrial photographer, he studied media art at <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bildo_Akademie_f%C3%BCr_Kunst_und_Medien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BILDO<\/a> in Berlin from 1989 to 1993, founding ledesi mediendesign in 1993 (which closed in 2001) and subsequently ants and butterflies in 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:fp@ants-and-butterflies.de?subject=contact%20via%20ants%20website\">fp@ants-and-butterflies.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1933\" height=\"1933\" src=\"https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2227\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw.jpg 1933w, https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw-468x468.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw-1612x1612.jpg 1612w, https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw-1116x1116.jpg 1116w, https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw-806x806.jpg 806w, https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw-558x558.jpg 558w, https:\/\/ants-and-butterflies.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tom_IMGP5716_sw-655x655.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1933px) 100vw, 1933px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tom Thiel | Photo \u00a9 Frank Paul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tom Thiel<\/strong> is a musician [Sun Electric, BUS], producer and sound engineer. <br>He works as a freelance programmer for ants and butterflies.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:tt@ants-and-butterflies.de?subject=contact%20via%20ants%20website\">tt@ants-and-butterflies.de<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Berlin-based team at ants and butterflies carries out transmedia projects in the fields of cultural education, art, sound, architecture, literature and ecology. 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