In The Forest Fire, We Watch The Birds Fly By

This ongoing series seeks to explore various meaninful non-human actors in the ongoing 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 | 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 | political life, but seen as capable of constructing, transforming, and manipulating. The series tries to highlights 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 age”— a useful, but not harmless concept. However, the medium is able to leave them untouched and unharmed, showing that interaction and co-creation with these actors is possible without instrumentalizing them.