Since the revelation of the New Topographics, and now especially since Web 2.0, we’ve been progressively saturated with a stream of context-free pictorial landscapes, fuelling hyper-consumption and a pseudo knowledge of the world. Logic might suggest that landscape photography has become a passé genre, or an artificial one callously manipulated by advertising and media.
So why act in this field? In the first instance there is the selfish drive to ‘experience’ and dwell in the sensorial continuum of the (natural) world and secondly, there is a need to clarify a position opposite the landscape, and to ask, at what point are we part of the landscape as opposed to humans who might recklessly exploit it.
