There are places in nature where you feel quite small and lost. In the presence of the mountains or the vastness of the sea, the overwhelming dimension and the fullness of the incoming sensory impressions result in a humbling experience. The high mountains, with their vertical layers of clouds, rock, snow, scree and forests, belong to this category of landscape. Not only does the mood of the lighting change very rapidly, it is also distributed with great variety throughout the visually perceptible scenery.
In Central Switzerland, however, the mountain world is by no means lonely and deserted. Here, civilization has penetrated the remotest corners, and the boundary between natural and cultivated landscapes is hardly obvious. In any case, what inevitably reveals itself to the viewer are the overwhelming panoramas, insights and views over spectacular landscapes. Ultimately, these views trigger in us a deeper reflection on the power of nature, weather and time vs. the adaptation of human culture and the impact we left behind. Even the untouched nature, if you are still able to find some, is already affected by our lifestyle due to the influence of climate change.
Henk Kosche
Henk Kosche is a product designer and photographer who lives in the heart of Germany, the Ruhr area. Since studying at art college, he has been working with photography as a means of observation and creation. His approach to photography is to look closely, structure visual impressions, create a context and finally condense everything into a statement.
In the process of working as a product designer, observing human activities and asking what we name as a problem to be solved in our everyday lives is an important part of thinking about solutions. This involves understanding affected people and how they interact, but also the context in which their decisions are made. Photography can have meaning right here. Unlike words, a picture can create a dense, emotional impression within seconds. Great photography is a point of view frozen in time.
Henk is particularly interested in the traces that we as humans leave behind in nature—the moment when architecture meets nature or when the landscape is transformed as a cultural counterworld to nature for a specific purpose. Another topic is the observation of individuals and their behavior in a specific cultural environment. What makes us human, and where do we see ourselves as the counterpart to nature rather than part of it?
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