There exists an innate human instinct to care about and communicate with nature. Experts in the fields of Natural Science & Psychotherapy have been touting positive effects of nature on the human body and mind. A Japanese study describes a link between walking in forests and the reduction of chronic...
Luca Tombolini: Landscapes
The dawn of mankind, a time with no rationality. An ancestor contemplating the cosmos perceives the necessity of a divinity. The Second Cosmogony takes place along with the miracle of self-thinking consciousness. In that moment he knows he exists for a reason; he's got the significative element and this had...
Adam Entwistle: PORTALS
Till your eyes foist a vision dazzling on the wind, line 14, Sylvia Plath, November Graveyard Bold yet intimate nature scenes induce mystical experiences in the viewer, charged by the capturing of the photographer’s projection. A bleak, melancholic beauty forms from vast open moorland. Along with imposing ancient stones from...
Rene Koster: Antarctica
The Project ‘Antarctica’ shows a series of photographs of a voyage to the South Pole. I traveled with a sailing ship which was built in 1911; the same period the last great expeditions left for the unknown continent. Thoughts of frozen ships trapped in ice-covered seas cross my mind, images...
Tamina-Florentine Zuch: Gür Orman – A Thick Forest
The Türkish Province of Istanbul is made up of 44% woodland. Over 2,500 naturally-occuring plant forms are to be found here. These woodlands are essential for the supply of oxygen and water to the city of Istanbul. The forests are also essential for their fauna: they provide a resting place...
Katarzyna Nizinkiewicz: Simple World
About her series "Simple World" Katarzyna Nizinkiewicz says: In March 2016 I walked 500 km from Finland to North Cape on the skis. I was with friend, we slept in the tent and we pull our food and all what we needed on the sleds (me also 4kg of my photographic...
Elena Anosova: Saagan Sag
Olkhon is the only inhabited island of the lake Baikal and a tourist resort center of the Siberia during summer-time. The island is a sacral place for several religions, shamanism and buddhism, and it used to be territory of neolithic people sites. For several winter months (2010-2015) I record everyday...
Arnaud Teicher: Alpine Passes
Alpine passes are key places in the understanding of mountainous territory, they pass between two valleys and maintain the surprise about the landscapes that we hide. Since 2012, I bring attention to altitude alpine passes. My approach identifies a topographic work through the photographic medium. Alpine passes help me to...
Yigal Pardo: Beachscape
Says Yigal: In the series of works "Beachscape" I try to distill the experience I took in the camera with a minimum of images in the frame, and with attention to accuracy in brightness level and color level. With all available technical tools at my disposal, I can distill the experience and...
Daniel Cheek: Where We Go
“Where We Go” is a body of work that contemplates and addresses the act of engagement between people and the natural world. I believe that through interpretation of the ways we experience places that are considered natural, we learn more about how we want to live in our own environment....