Magic forest

In Tirol (Austria) there are a lot of sport parks for bow shooting. People are used to spend the weekends there.

In Tirol (Austria) there are a lot of sport parks for bow shooting. People are used to spend the weekends there. 

Visitors train themselves mostly on artificial animals. Often the figures are hidden on purpose and from afar it is not always clear to the viewer that the animal is not real. The medium of photography impose a kind of filter through which we often try to discern the image. Animals are reproduced in real size and placed in their typical habitat. 

The traditions of previously real hunting are altered, seemingly softened by the absence of actual killing of animals. However, the manifestation of the ancient instinct of the hunter still seeks a way out and finds it, fully exposed, in a sport such as archery.