Environmental Transformations

Environmental Transformations is about a surrealistic journey from the forest into the city with photographs from the Ostalbkreis in Germany to playfully, artistically and comprehensibly sharpen the awareness of ubiquitous environmental problems. The idea for this project came from the experimental photographic practice during the master‘s program, my love of nature and the fascination for the surreal. After more than ten years abroad, in 2015, I returned to the small town I grew up in and was amazed by the negative changes in the environment. With this personal final project and in cooperation with the BUND - Regionalverband Ostwuerttemberg, we intend to playfully inform the people about the consequences of this progressive change. The complete work includes a diverse selection of photographs that have been produced and subsequently digitally processed using a variety of photographic techniques and devices. All in all, it contains a collection of nine contrasting photo series, each of which displays four images of the respective locations with four different photographic techniques, such as a special 360 ° technique, a Lensball photographic technique and photomontages. The last-mentioned technique was used for the main photographs, which were also exhibited to tell their own individual story and to illustrate the urbanization process as a whole. The photomontages were selected as the main photographs because they illustrate the effects of environmental the change in a playful yet distinctive way and are substantiated much better by the captions than the other techniques.