In The Forest Fire, We Watch The Birds Fly By
This ongoing series seeks to explore various meaningful non-human actors in the climate crisis, such as trees, streams, or the North Sea. These entities are often exploited, erased, manipulated through technology, and instrumentalized for capital gain. In these harmful processes, they are transformed and distanced from the social and political realm, reinforcing the dualism between Nature and Human.
In this project, the medium of (film) photography is not viewed as a passive tool for documenting social and political life, but as one capable of constructing, transforming, and manipulating. The series tries to highlight the radical manipulation of trees and water in the context of the climate crisis, making them nearly unrecognizable to reflect the processes of erasure unfolding in the so-called Anthropocene—a useful but problematic concept. However, the medium is also able to leave them untouched and unharmed, demonstrating that interaction and co-creation with these actors is possible without instrumentalizing them.