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My photography sets two different worlds against one another: nature and culture. On the one hand the nature; as an indefinite organic development of landscapes with forests, plants and animals. The other side the culture; the environment that is made through man.
"Culture may be regarded as that part of the environment, that is the creation of man."(Kluckhohn, Culture: a critical review of concepts and definitions (N.Y.1964). The hunt for the original, unmanipulated nature indicates immediately that this is no longer possible. Rivers, forests, green zones show the interventions of man. The forests are managed, the rivers streamlined and the animals manipulated.
I am searching for the places where the natural environment borders on the cultivated and human-influenced surroundings. I try to capture that moment. A moment where the two worlds meet or overlap. I clearly try to illustrate the contrast between the rational and the organic line.
