A significant part of the work of artistic researcher Martin Tscholl (DE) involves walking through meadows, forests, and mountains. Here, he encounters a web of interconnections that extends far beyond the realm of humans. This web is inhabited by a wide variety of organisms, materials, and processes that are mutually dependent and in permanent change. By actively looking out for these other beings located in the margins of our phenomenal perception, a correspondence between the human and the non-human spheres starts to unfold. In this process, positions emerge in which the apparent opposites of the rational and irrational, life and non-life, art and nature, converge.

Tscholl’s photography allows us to recognise the silent fragments of nature as being different from us, but also as originating from the same ontological ground. The many mystical objects in this book seem like they could come to life at any moment, giving us a warm sense of connection.

Martin Tscholl has been studying fine art photography at the Ostkreuzschule Berlin at the seminar Ludwig Rauch. He holds an M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology and is an artistic researcher. His visual research practice draws on aesthetic experience as core to ecological sensibility. His works have been awarded and shown internationally several times amongst others at Copenhagen Photo Festival, Fotofestival Lenzburg, Fresh Eyes Photo Fair, Amsterdam, International Photography Festival Encontros Da Imagem, Braga.

Hardcover, 240 Pages, 22.5×30.8cm
Published by: The Eriskay Connection