Winners Gallery - FotoSlovo 2025 / FotoSlovo 2024
Series - FotoSlovo 2024 - Category « Wild life »
Honorable Mention
Inspired by my personal childhood, Wundervei visually depicts my emotional encounters when passing through natural spaces, encourages audiences to reconnect with our natural environment through sheer visual pleasure and appreciation.
Personally, a memory is defined as an impression that melds visual fragments over the course of a moment. To create the pieces, photographs of intriguing moments were taken while walking through natural scenery. These photographs were then digitally layered and compressed to form a single image - depicting a passage of time within a single frame and creating an entire memory that can be held in our hands and become physical again.
By digitally layering several photographs it is intended that the work initially be read as a painting before closer inspection where the characteristics of digital technology and the photographic become apparent. By considering the role of photography and historical paintings in representing the natural landscape, and in turn, our recollections, this series aims to question the opinion that photography is a mere technological process and a tool for depicting realism devoid of human soul or emotion.