Nature nominee

What is absolutely so compelling about this plant? What characteristics does this plant hold that somehow separates it from another? What quality or feeling does this plant radiate? These are questions that I constantly ask myself when producing my final images. With this series, I would like to portray the unique entity of each plant that I have selected. This may be displayed through a sense of complexity; embracing colour manifestations; or exhibiting strong visual characteristics. Often they may be seen as fragile; or providing a sense of protection due to their size and diminished colour.
There is often a tactile feeling that provides another dimension to the image.
Each final image contains anywhere from up to 80 single images and takes over 3 months to complete. I take the plant apart, photograph and scan the pieces then reassemble them. I believe my unusual process allows these divers plants to display their inimitable forms.

Anne Hoerter is a Canadian photographer who experiments with multiple images as a single composition. Her photographic imagery has won a number of international awards across a variety of genres, including fine art and advertising.
Anne was captivated very early on by extreme photographic manipulation techniques and collage as a photographic student at the Ontario College of Art in Canada.
She is fascinated by both the continual change of negative and positive space through movement and the process of taking a living organism, whether it be human or plant form, fragmenting it, manipulating it and then re-inventing it into an entirely new entity which resembles the original, but is in fact, altogether contemporary. An image which sways between reality and surrealism.
Her final compositions can take anywhere from up to 4 weeks to complete and contain more than over 50 single images.
She is currently living in both Germany and Canada.