Olaf Otto Becker in conversation with Julia Peck
Since the late 1990s, Olaf Otto Becker (b. 1959- ) has been photographing landscape scenery in Iceland and Greenland with the intention to document how these landscapes are changing. Becker’s photography captures the changes wrought by anthropogenically driven climate change, most notably by capturi...
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ftunigloucesters:oai::8301 2023-05-15T16:29:34+02:00 Olaf Otto Becker in conversation with Julia Peck Peck, Julia White, Darcy Goldie, Chris 2020-09-30 text https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/8301/ https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/8301/3/8301-Peck-%282019%29-Olaf-Otto-%20Becker-%20in-%20conversation.pdf en eng Transcript Verlag https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/8301/3/8301-Peck-%282019%29-Olaf-Otto-%20Becker-%20in-%20conversation.pdf Peck, Julia orcid:0000-0001-5134-2471 (2020) Olaf Otto Becker in conversation with Julia Peck. In: Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography: Contemporary Criticism, Curation and Practice. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. all_rights N Visual arts (General) For photography see TR TR Photography Book Section PeerReviewed 2020 ftunigloucesters 2022-03-16T20:03:12Z Since the late 1990s, Olaf Otto Becker (b. 1959- ) has been photographing landscape scenery in Iceland and Greenland with the intention to document how these landscapes are changing. Becker’s photography captures the changes wrought by anthropogenically driven climate change, most notably by capturing the retreat of glaciers. Becker’s practice, which foregrounds an aesthetic response to place, also photographs agricultural and urban landscapes, situating nature as part of our global economy. Images of living spaces contextualise human dwellings and living patterns for many people across the globe. This narrative is further elaborated upon in Becker’s later projects, and discussed in the interview, which explores primary forests, deforestation, and the planting of urban spaces, but also situating his output within the context of global economies. This first in-depth interview with Becker discusses the evolution of his practice, his commitment to climate and environmental issues, and how this relates to the way the developed world treats nature as a resource in both the global north and the global south. The interview also investigates Becker’s process of making images and engages with both the documentary and constructed strands of his photographs. New insights, such as the images’ relationship to time (both in terms of photography, and the deep time of geology) and the uncanny nature of some of the re-photographed sites emerges, offering new insights into Becker’s practice. Book Part Greenland Iceland University of Gloucestershire: Research Repository Greenland |
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Since the late 1990s, Olaf Otto Becker (b. 1959- ) has been photographing landscape scenery in Iceland and Greenland with the intention to document how these landscapes are changing. Becker’s photography captures the changes wrought by anthropogenically driven climate change, most notably by capturing the retreat of glaciers. Becker’s practice, which foregrounds an aesthetic response to place, also photographs agricultural and urban landscapes, situating nature as part of our global economy. Images of living spaces contextualise human dwellings and living patterns for many people across the globe. This narrative is further elaborated upon in Becker’s later projects, and discussed in the interview, which explores primary forests, deforestation, and the planting of urban spaces, but also situating his output within the context of global economies. This first in-depth interview with Becker discusses the evolution of his practice, his commitment to climate and environmental issues, and how this relates to the way the developed world treats nature as a resource in both the global north and the global south. The interview also investigates Becker’s process of making images and engages with both the documentary and constructed strands of his photographs. New insights, such as the images’ relationship to time (both in terms of photography, and the deep time of geology) and the uncanny nature of some of the re-photographed sites emerges, offering new insights into Becker’s practice. |
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