Peter Lippmann: Paradise Parking

Peter Lippmann is best known for his work as a still life photographer. He has also worked with landscapes, animals and people. The photographer is well known in the advertising community. Lippmann has been published in Vogue, New York Times, and Marie Claire. His collaborations includes such famous brans as Flora, Nicolas Feuillatte Champagne, Minute Maid, Chianti, Downy, Wilkinson Sword. He was born in New York, but raised in New Jersey. Lippmann currently lives and works in Paris. 

I am in love with Lippmann’s new series Paradise Parking. The cars are all antique cars that have been completely over run by the nature that surrounds it. The vehicles look like they are being overcome, and may be deteriorating into the earth. It is a beautiful look at what happens when nature takes over man-made objects. 

After two months of asking, Lippmann finally gained access to a family estate. When he got to where the cars are it was infested with snakes. The photographer was also faced with his assistant getting lyme disease. It took Lippmann two years to complete the project.

In a perfect world I would have the time find a place like this and the ability to paint it justly. It is a perfect find for what I am interested in. However, I do not know of such a wonderful place. I will stick to my junkyards, unless a place like that comes to my attention.