A wave of water that starts moving, an ear of grain that moves in the wind, nothing and yet part of the sum of our existence. The present of the past directly inscribed on light-sensitive paper and framed. I capture the fleeting and use photography to ask questions about the nature of nature and its transience. My photographic experiments capture the soul of nature directly and purely. 
EMR 
 
cyanotype on watercolor paper 
(cameraless photography) 
100 x 70 cm 
2020 
unique print

life print field n34

life print field n°33

A wave of water that starts moving, an ear of grain that moves in the wind, nothing and yet part of the sum of our existence. The present of the past directly inscribed on light-sensitive paper and framed. I capture the fleeting and use photography to ask questions about the nature of nature and its transience. My photographic experiments capture the soul of nature directly and purely. 
EMR 
 
cyanotype on watercolor paper 
(cameraless photography) 
70 x 100 cm 
2020 
unique print

life print field n°8

A wave of water that starts moving, an ear of grain that moves in the wind, nothing and yet part of the sum of our existence. The present of the past directly inscribed on light-sensitive paper and framed. I capture the fleeting and use photography to ask questions about the nature of nature and its transience. My photographic experiments capture the soul of nature directly and purely. EMR 
 
cyanotype on watercolor paper 
(cameraless photography) 
70 x 100 cm 
2020 
unique print

live print sun flower field n°1

In my series "river prints" I blur water from the Danube and views of the same river. When I combine river water with photo chemistry in a painterly manner, it is also an attempt to capture threatened waters – both physically and poetically. Abstract and at the same time concrete images arise, capturing the essence of the river in its movement. river print n°9 cyanotype on watercolor paper with traces of danube river water (chemigram). 
 
cyanotype on watercolor paper with traces of danube water 
100 x 200 cm 
2022

river print n°4

lakeland n°4 
cyanotype on watercolor paper with traces of lake water (lake Neusiedlersee in Austria) 
40x30cm, 2024 
unique print 
 
severel layers of water traces and light exposure

lakeland n°4

lakeland n°4 
cyanotype on watercolor paper with traces of lake water (lake Neusiedlersee in Austria) 
double exposured 
30x40cm, 2024 
unique print 
 
severel layers of water traces and light exposure

lakeland n°3

lakeland n°2 
cyanotype on watercolor paper with traces of lake water (lake Neusiedlersee in Austria) 
double exposured 
36x48cm, 2024 
 
unique print 
severel layers of water traces and light exposure

lakeland n°2

In her lake prints Eva-Maria Raab generates vestiges and poetic sculptures. She includes lake water in her cyanotypes, thus preserving this rare and precious resource. She thus uses a chemical process to highlight the societal challenge that access to water is. 
 
cyanotype on watercolor paper 
with traces of lake water (Attersee, Austria) 
70x100 cm 
2021 
unique prints

lake you n°29

lake you n°103 
cyanotype on watercolor paper with traces of lake water (lake Neusiedlersee in Austria) 
36x48cm, 2024 
unique print

lake you n°103

live print vineyard L3

cyanotype on watercolor paper with traces of danube river water, 
cameraless photography of driftwood 
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In my series drifting I create photographic relics, where I prepare light sensitive paper with water from the Danube river and expose driftwood on it. I am fascinated by the well-travelled wood that was carried and shaped by the movements of the river. Wood that sometimes looks like human bones, has allowed itself to be carried along by the current of the river and has truly ventured to unknown shores. For me it stands for the human being, which is in constant motion in the sense of Heraclitus and "panta rhei" (Greek: everything flows).

drifting n°3

drifting n°2

I expose my whole body on the light sensitive paper and dive into the photographic process. 20 minutes of exposure under the sun. Water from the Danube river is melt with the photo chemistry 
 
photographic bodyscape n°8 
cyanotype on watercolor paper with traces of Danube river water 
65x50cm, 2024 
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photographic bodyscape n°8

live print roses n°1 
cyanotype on watercolor paper 
cameraless photography 
65x50cm, 2021 
unique print

live print roses n°1

drifting n°1

In her lake prints Eva-Maria Raab generates vestiges and poetic sculptures. She includes lake water in her cyanotypes, thus preserving this rare and precious resource. She thus uses a chemical process to highlight the societal challenge that access to water is. 
 
cyanotype on watercolor paper 
with traces of lake water (Neusiedlersee) 
28x28cm 
2024 
unique prints

lake you n°86

In her lake prints Eva-Maria Raab generates vestiges and poetic sculptures. She includes lake water in her cyanotypes, thus preserving this rare and precious resource. She thus uses a chemical process to highlight the societal challenge that access to water is. 
 
cyanotype on watercolor paper 
with traces of lake water (Neusiedlersee) 
28x28cm 
2024 
unique print

lake you n°91

In my series "river prints" I blur water from the Danube and views of the same river. When I combine river water with photo chemistry in a painterly manner, it is also an attempt to capture threatened waters – both physically and poetically. Abstract and at the same time concrete images arise, capturing the essence of the river in its movement. river print n°9 cyanotype on watercolor paper with traces of danube river water (chemigram). 
 
cyanotype on watercolor paper with traces of danube river water 
100x70cm, 2024 
unique print

river print n°7

river print n°8

river print n°9

cyanotype on watercolor paper with traces of danube water 
90 x 205 cm 
2022

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life print vineyard L8

Make a tour and discover some of my works in my virtual exhibition. By walking trough the space, you can get an impression of some majeur artworks of the last five years. Have a look at my "live prints" of corn fields or vineyards (2020), my "river prints" and "lake prints", "driftings" and "photographic bodyscapes".

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A gust of wind that sets the ears of corn in the field in motion, a slowly melting drop of ice – nothing and yet part of the sum of our existence. . Since 2015, Eva-Maria Raab has been exploring elementary questions about the creation of an image and the possibility of capturing ephemeral phenomena using the photographic printing process of cyanotype. She experiments with negative and positive, light and shadow, the visible and the invisible - challenging us to see the familiar in a new light. Raab‘s works can be read as a reference to the existence of the objects where everyhing flows.

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