In Zuckerrüben (sugar beets) Ingar Krauss stages the sugar beets in natural light against a dark background, photographing them in black-and-white using analog methods and reducing them to the essentials of their appearance. Thus, over the years, a typology of this „Beta Vulgaris“ has emerged.

His sugar beet physiognomies allow the cultivar to appear in its simple dignity and melancholy, while at the same time providing the opportunity to contemplate human perception of, and appreciation, for nature and its products.
To avoid superficial, quick browsing, this publication was not conceived as a classic book, but as a lproduced portfolio box, with 36 individual picture cards, a poster and a text booklet.

Ingar Krauss works exclusively in analog, makes all the prints himself, and understands photography as an “alchemical image process that is also related to fine art, painting, and printmaking, in terms of craftsmanship” (from the accompanying text by Eugen Blume).