Nature nominee

There is a magical atmosphere when I enter the cloud forest. A green paradise! I pause, breathe the humid and fresh air, admire primeval trees, tree ferns, moss, epiphytes and hanging lianas. A unique flora and fauna exists in this rainforest. Wafts of fog rise between the plants, it drips from the treetops and birdsong can be heard from different directions. Silent and amazed, I roam through this green thicket with my analogue panorama camera. Always attentively looking for an ideal angle for a picture. The photography in the dense rainforest demands all senses and experiences. But the effort is worth it for this extraordinary place.

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.