How nature affects the picture

We create landscapes, we photograph nature. But what if trees, rivers and plants could be more involved in creating the final portrait of themselves?

«How nature affects the picture» project

(2019 – ongoing)

I use experimental techniques to involve nature in co-creation. I soaked rolls of film in the water of rivers, swamps, lakes and quarries in different places in Ukraine and Germany. I added leaves, twigs and sand to the water. I shot these films in the same places where the water came from. I left several prints in the soil and swamps in the area where I photographed them, and a few months later I scanned the result. Nature has left a unique imprint that will never be the same again.

Nature participated in the creation of these works. It is also an effect and a model, the print and the chemical part. Nature can create and destroy, it has amazing colours and it can erase colours.