Panoramic nominee

Many times and in different seasons and weather conditions I stood in this forest. It was a cool and rainy spring day. In the evening, the tree trunks were wet and the fresh green in the beech forest glowed. The fine mist coming up due to the humidity was perfect and so I could realise the image I had planned.

Shot in analogue panoramic 6x17 with slide film Provia100F.

For over 20 years, Swiss landscape photographer Oliver Wehrli has combined photography, technology and nature to create photographs that speak a silent yet forceful language. He prefers realistic depictions that appear natural and subtle, showing landscapes unchanged in order to remind the viewer of the beauty of nature without detours via abstraction. He finds his motifs in the close surroundings of his native Switzerland as well as in the vast landscapes of Europe or New Zealand. The photographer prefers to go out into nature with an analogue camera. For him, analogue photography represents the reduction to the essential - namely composing and capturing the image.