Plastic Landscapes (Hasselblad Master Award in Fine Art)

This group of works meets at the intersection of staged and spontaneous photography and functions as a commentary on environmental issues and the long-term effects of waste and non-biodegradable materials. In these photos, plastic (that everlasting man made product) meets the elemental.

The photographs capture a battle between the natural order and man’s discarded materials, and through the velocity of wind, rain and water, the plastic seems transformed into ghostly supernatural beings. Constantly changing and unpredictable forces of wind, water, and light form unique photographic scenes, making the plastic dance in a strange choreography. This lack of pictorial control means there is a certain creative energy, which is essentially in the moment, and irreproducible: “Plastic interconnects with the motion of ocean, wind and waves producing unpredictable effect. Wind plays a huge role, as well as reflection of the light in the plastic."

A grandiose contemplation of the fate of our earth, these scenes of plastic emblazoned across pristine natural views are a metaphorical imagining of our future, a world taken over by waste.

Plastic Landscape is the metaphor for the disrespect people show to our Nature. We use plastic everywhere. It this how the future landscape look? Plastic will "grow" on trees?
I include plastic in the landscape; it is unique idea of changing the landscape by incorporating proper kinds of plastic depending on the location, light, the strength and direction of the wind, tide and the size of the swell. "I enjoy creating Plastic Landscapes, this is when I am not entirely in the control of what the sensor will record. Plastic interconnects with the motion of ocean, wind and waves producing unpredictable effect. Wind plays a huge role, as well as reflection of the light in the plastic."
This project has won Hasselblad Master Award in Fine Art.