Hedwich Rooks

DRAGDROP for customized compositions / all photographs are available as limited print editions


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A series of sceneries accentuating the traces of the Capitalocene -acknowledging that the traveling and lense-based equipment that brought these photographs to being, obviously upholds this issue. The photographs are not shared in order to aestheticize its presence, but to reflect its raw actuality within the artist’s photographical language. 


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1. A massive pipeline ripping through the rural Atlas Mountains. 2019
2. Overabundance of stacked red fishing crates (Port d'Imsouane, Morocco). 2019
3. A cormorant with its wings cut off; deployed as abusive tool for fishing (Gifu, Japan). 2018
4. Covered man-made vehicle behaving like a section of the volcanic mountain itself (Java, Indonesia). 2016
5. Artificial light under daylight during Atlas Electronic festival. 2019
6. Neon green street lights on an already green fence, jacket and bushes, merged into an extragreen whole. 2018
7. A quick anthropogenic sugar rush -visible through its plastic jacket as evidence- at ecotouristic geyser (Iceland). 2021
8. Many discarded fiberglass networks form an artificial mountain (Groningen, The Netherlands). 2020
9. Countless extremophiles bathing in the active sulfur vents and hot springs of geothermal valley Owakudani. 2018
10. Antenna palmtrees as camouflaged technology. 2019


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A series of sceneries accentuating the traces of the Capitalocene -acknowledging that the traveling and lense-based equipment that brought these photographs to being, obviously upholds this issue. The photographs are not shared in order to aestheticize its presence, but to reflect its raw actuality within the artist’s photographical language. 


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1. A massive pipeline ripping through the rural Atlas Mountains. 2019
2. Overabundance of stacked red fishing crates (Port d'Imsouane, Morocco). 2019
3. A cormorant with its wings cut off; deployed as abusive tool for fishing (Gifu, Japan). 2018
4. Covered man-made vehicle behaving like a section of the volcanic mountain itself (Java, Indonesia). 2016
5. Artificial light under daylight during Atlas Electronic festival. 2019
6. Neon green street lights on an already green fence, jacket and bushes, merged into an extragreen whole. 2018
7. A quick anthropogenic sugar rush -visible through its plastic jacket as evidence- at ecotouristic geyser (Iceland). 2021
8. Many discarded fiberglass networks form an artificial mountain (Groningen, The Netherlands). 2020
9. Countless extremophiles bathing in the active sulfur vents and hot springs of geothermal valley Owakudani. 2018
10. Antenna palmtrees as camouflaged technology. 2019


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