This photo is part of the Cabin Fever series

My fascination with mountains started as a child, when every summer holiday my mother took my sister and I to the mountains to go hiking. The past four years I went to the mountains alone. Hiking gives me this great feeling of freedom. Surrounded by these solitary landscapes I relate to something incomprehensible and I realize how futile I am. Especially nowadays, where lack of privacy and oversupply is king and I no longer know if I am the customer or the consumed, the longing for a cabin amid rocks and snow is big. This project depicts this eagerness and it is at the same time an ode to a landscape that is unrecognizable and irrevocable changing.

This photo is part of the ongoing series Arctic Silence

Nothing prepares you for Spitsbergen – one of the world’s northernmost settlements. My camera and I have crossed many a mountain and solitary landscape yet this place looked nor felt like anything I had seen before. The great white vastness took me by surprise as I spent my days hiking in the snow. There aren’t any trees standing here; the cold only permits this eternal naked landscape covered in white pillow-like mountains. I never felt happier hearing nothing but the cracking of snow underneath my feet.
With this ongoing project I want to depict the extreme yet fragile landscape of the Arctic circle – which is changing irreversible and unrecognizable – and its inhabitants. Who are these people, why did they move here and how do they deal with the harshness of the cold, the polar nights and midnight sun?