Helene Schmitz
Thinking Like a Mountain
Schmitz’s latest photographic investigations explore humanity’s impact on the environment. Her exhibition at Fotografiska Tallinn will feature a selection of work from her series Thinking Like a Mountain (2018). Earlier projects have focused on the aggressive and sometimes fragile relationship between nature and human beings, one that is spiraling out of control. Thinking Like a Mountain sheds light on the relationship between the ownership and exploitation of natural resources in Sweden and Iceland.
Helene Schmitz is a large-scale environmental photographer investigating the exploitation of the natural world and its resources.
“In Thinking Like a Mountain, I wanted to portray the violent transformation of landscapes in the northern regions of Sweden and Iceland in our time. In my life, I have experienced that the concept of wilderness, and virgin land untouched by humans, has disintegrated. My photographs can be seen as a meditation on man’s relation to nature – a global, highly industrialized and automated transformation of landscapes.”