Changing Landscapes

The photo series captures the impact of human activities on our planet’s most delicate ecosystems, focusing on melting glaciers. The series features images of textiles covering the glaciers, the construction of new dams, and groups of people within vibrant landscapes, all of which combine to form a complex narrative of nature’s transformation.

The textures of the fabrics meld with the rawness of ice, showing the last attempt to stop the glacier from becoming water again. It’s an inspiration for collective efforts towards sustainable coexistence.
Switzerland’s glaciers lost one-third during the last decade and 10% of their volume in the last two years. Dry winters followed by hot summers were responsible for the rapid melting. Another shot shows the biggest in Europe dam reconstruction. Spitallamm arch dam, built in 1932, Along with the 42-metre-high Seeuferegg gravity dam, forms the largest artificial reservoir in Switzerland, the Grimselsee. It keeps water for people, but also forms an artificially constructed landscape in the middle of the Alp mountains.

Contrary to the detailed digital photos, I’m adding analogue photo memories of hiking glaciers and mountains. They are bright and blurry. I used cross-processing to make the colours dreamy. When we perceive the information, it’s usually very emotional. And we remember those emotions and feelings, not the real situations. The half-overexposed image symbolises how easily we can erase whole pages of natural history – giant ecosystems. I want our planet to survive, not only in our memories but thrive in reality, which is a sentiment shared by many who are concerned about the environment. 

It’s natural for the water of glaciers to become fluid again. And it’s natural for our world to change. But we are responsible now for this rapid change. And would it be the place for us in this newly melted and evaporated world?

Prints are available in limited editions printed on high-quality archival museum paper.

Photo series were exhibited in Art House Zurich Gallery, Switzerland, 08-23 September 2023

«Earth Rising», Group show, 20-22 September 2024 Irish Museum of Modern Art IMMA (IE) and «Earth Photo 2024» at Royal Geographical Society London (UK) and travelling exhibition at 15 National Trust and Forestry England locations till March 2025.