After Nature Prize 25
In her new project "Notes on How to Build a Forest," Ecuadorian photographer Isadora Romero creates a multi-layered visual narrative about two cloud forests in her home country.
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Palmen bei Mache Chindul, 2024
Isadora Romero Notes on How to Build a Forest
Collaborating with local communities and scientists, she created photographs that reveal the close interrelationships between people, plants, animals, and environmental conditions.
The starting point is agroecological practices and sustainable forms of management. Romero works with various photographic techniques – from infrared and UV images to lumen prints that fade over the course of the exhibition to textile-based methods.
Her focus is on the past, present, and future of forests, as well as on the transfer of knowledge between generations, which also incorporates the traditional knowledge of pre-Columbian cultures such as the Yumbo and Jama-Coaque.
Thus, Romero presents the forest as a living space steeped in history and culture – and at the same time as a reflection of social responsibility in the face of global ecological challenges.
