Against the backdrop of the current environmental crisis, my presentation explores the more-than-human lifeworld through photography, aiming to foster a heightened awareness of ecological complexity. The visual investigations extend to glaciers, forests, and mountains—landscapes shaped by diverse, dynamic entanglements. These places reveal a dense network of organisms and materials that coexist, interact, and continuously transform. Often situated at the fringes of human attention, these entities remain largely invisible in their autonomy and layered materiality.
In my practice, photography serves as a tool of the imaginary, enabling a visual engagement with more-than-human perspectives. Organic and inorganic entities such as fungi, stones, and wood are not merely depicted but explored in their presence, agency, and aesthetic resonance. The work seeks to render these lifeworlds not only visible but also sensually and intellectually tangible—opening up a mode of visual thinking that challenges anthropocentric perception and affirms the aesthetic efficacy of nonhuman entities.
Photography is not understood here as mere representation, but as a medium of speculative aesthetics that opens up expanded sensibilities of seeing. Through staging and formal intervention, the images create speculative relations and atmospheric spaces—shifting between contextualization and abstraction. In doing so, they do not aim to document nature reductively, but to propose an open, relational, and postanthropocentric image of the world
Martin Tscholl
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin; SINTA Bern
Martin Tscholl (1983) has been studying fine art photography at the Ostkreuzschule Berlin at the seminar Ludwig Rauch and at the Masterclass Ludwig Rauch. He holds an M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology and is an artistic researcher at the Natural History Museum in Berlin. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD at SINTA (Studies in the Arts) in Bern, Switzerland. His visual research practice draws on aesthetic experience as core to ecological sensibility.