Innholdsfortegnelse for #4 2020 i Artdoc Photography Magazine

Ellen Jantzen lived for twenty years in Los Angeles, California. Because of the tall buildings of the city, the mountains were difficult to see. “I was 30 years old when I saw a mountain for the first time. I became intrigued by the mountains.” After moving from Los Angeles, Jantzen became fascinated with nature and rock formations in New Mexico. She started with her photo series Unexpected Geology, an investigation of proportions and scales of landscapes, rock formations, and mountains. As a viewer of her work, you do not know whether you see a real mountain or a stone from her garden. By her visual art, she gets a grip on her new environment. “I love the mountains and have always been interested in geology, rock formations, and volcanoes. With…

Claudius Schulze travelled for five years through Europe where he started his photographic search for iconic plates of nature, in which human input is visible. “The motivation to do this project came from two sources, my own experience and the theoretical background. I was climbing in the mountains, and I was impressed by the large scale of the structures I saw there. My sister is a social geographer, and through her I understood how many civil works were done in the mountains to prevent natural catastrophes. The engineers are not at all interested in whether humans cause climate change or not. They see that something is changing in nature, and they respond to it. I agree with that approach. Most importantly, we have the strength to change it. And we…

Bseiso has divided her project into four chapters, the first focusing on the 180 km long pipeline that must run from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. She has been working on this project since 2016 and expects to continue working on it over the next two years, after which a book about her discoveries is expected to be published. Currently, she is working on part two of her project, involving the Syrian border and Iraqi Border. For this stage she received the Aftermath grant to complete her investigation. In the 19th century, the present land borders in the Middle East did not yet exist. Partly because of the European presence, the current states came into being. Jordan borders Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Bseiso: “After the British…

“In my photography, I want to illuminate beauty amidst chaos. I’m calmed by the simplicity of a graceful line and the stillness of the suspended moment. I want to share my impression of the serenity I find there. I capture the ephemeral movement of light on organic forms to preserve that mystical moment that stills time for me. Photographing intuitively – what I feel, as much as what I see – and informed by a background in painting and art history, I portray a personal interpretation by layering the images digitally with colour and texture to find a balance between the real and the imagined. I am interested in how my experience of image-making engages my thinking, memories, and emotions and how the images may become an experience and palette…

Photography and Landscape Rod Giblett & Juha Tolonen With a focus on the settler societies of the United States and Australia, Photography and Landscape is a new critical account of landscape photography created through a unique collaboration between a photography writer and a landscape photographer. Beginning with the frontier days of the American West, the subsequent century-long popularity of landscape photography is exemplified by images from Carleton Watkins to Ansel Adams, the New Topographics to Richard Misrach, all of whose works are considered here. Along with discussions of other contemporary photographers, this extensively illustrated volume demonstrates the influence of settler societies on landscape photography, in which skilled photographers captured the fascination with and the appeal of the land and its expanse. Anthropocene Edward Burtynsky Anthropocene is the newest book by…

“I love Japan, and I always go there twice a year in my favourite seasons, spring and autumn. This spring of 2020 was different, I was supposed to be there only one month, but because of the Covid-19 pandemic, I ended up spending three months there. As the situation in Tokyo was getting worse because of the virus, I decided to go to the countryside. Since I love nature, I felt blessed to spend six weeks in Kawaguchiko, a lovely and charming town with amazing views of Mount Fuji. While I was there, I did a small tribute to the great Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849). Hokusai was not only one of the giants of the Japanese art scene and a legend of the Edo period but also an inspiration to…

Symbolic of the whole series is a picture taken in Pašalčis. The picture shows a ditch with a brand-new border post on both sides, one on the Lithuanian side and one on the Belarusian side. The photo tells a small story of a border, but it says a lot more about the large borders that run between two different cultures and economies. “The situation was surreal, because within a metre you could walk from Europe to Belarus. For me, the photo has a lot of meaning in the context of the broad discussion of migrants and the European borders.” How did Bastian choose this border area as his subject? “Before this project, I made a series in Kosovo called Across the River, about Mitrovica, a city on the border between…