Series - FotoSlovo 2026 - Category « Old Process »

The Most Beautiful Anthropocene is an ongoing photographic project that explores ecological vulnerability, environmental change, and the fragile beauty of damaged landscapes. The work responds to places already shaped by climate instability, including the increasingly wet and wind-exposed Outer Hebrides in Scotland, and the drought-affected countryside of Spain.

Using cameraless and analogue photographic processes, I work with expired photographic paper, eco-conscious and climate-adapted cyanotype chemistry, polluted seawater, acidic rainwater, sunlight, vulnerable plant specimens, and local environmental traces. Rather than simply photographing the landscape, I invite the landscape to take part in making the image. Weather, water, salt, time, and organic matter become collaborators in the process.

The project reflects on the contradiction within the word 'beautiful'. The Anthropocene is marked by extraction, loss, and human caused ecological damage, yet it also contains moments of intense visual and material beauty. My work sits within this tension, asking how photographic practice can witness environmental change without repeating systems of consumption and harm.

By using unstable materials and site responsive processes, the images become records of contact, exposure, and transformation. They speak to the vulnerability of both the photographic surface and the environments that shape it. The Most Beautiful Anthropocene asks what it means to make images in a time of ecological crisis, and how photography might become a slower, more caring, and more responsible way of paying attention.