Shifting landscapes
ARTIST STATEMENT
In 2019, my desire for new experiences and my love of the landscape and nature led me to Namibia to capture some of the world's highest and oldest dunes.
During this trip, I also had the opportunity to photograph the dead camel-thorn trees in the white clay pan known as Dead Vlei. The clay pan was formed after the Tsauchab River flooded, creating temporary shallow pools of water where the trees could grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, the dunes encroached on the pan, and the trees died. The remaining skeletons are believed to be between 600 and 700 years old. In 2020, a year after I had visited the pans, floods hit the area again, altering the landscape once more.
This journey culminated in my series Shifting Landscapes. The images serve as an attestation to the landscape's history before the 2020 floods. While these vast areas appear to be mere wastelands, each image is, in fact, an encounter with the beauty of a landscape in crisis, speaking about the relationship between creation and desolation through the lens of time and change.
