A series about the transformation of viticulture.
Ten black-and-white photographs from Rheinhessen, South Tyrol, and Spain.
Viticulture is one of the oldest cultural practices we know. And one of the most sensitive.
What generations have built now faces questions without simple answers.
"Vision of Vine: Winds of Change" follows these questions without answering them. The series makes visible what resists direct depiction:
the tension between what endures and what transforms, between what was and what may yet become.
Ten photographs, all created using ICM, intentional camera movement during exposure. A technique that releases control and makes space for what the landscape itself communicates.
The series is organized in three blocks:
Dissonance, Resistance and Transformation, The Future.
Each image is a standalone work and part of a narrative at the same time.
The series follows a dramatic arc:
from first questions through active transformation to a vision of renewed possibility.
The sequence is part of the work.
The first chapter poses a question:
what is changing, and what remains?
The images show not answers, but the moment when one begins to look more closely.
A figure in the haze. The path ahead lies open. The series' starting point.
Two people turning their backs on the vineyard. A farewell, or a departure. What comes next remains open.
Tendrils like figures in conversation. What is being negotiated stays open. The chapter ends with an open question.
The landscape reacts.
Movement, structure, the meeting of old and new.
Withered leaves and dried vines as multiple exposure.
The structure beneath becomes visible.
A vine, blurred yet present.
The center holds, even as everything around it moves.
The same path, once as expected, once inverted.
Tradition and renewal as two sides of one decision.
What remains when change is accepted:
energy, stance, new possibilities.
A vineyard in motion.
The horizon appears between the rows. New directions become visible.
A tendril showing two hands reaching into the earth.
A turning point. The new beginning starts from below.
The image that started the series. A multiple exposure resembling an ECG. The heartbeat of viticulture, continuing.
Vines photographed from below, appearing like figures in motion.
The end of the series. And its promise.
All ten photographs are available as limited original prints.
Each work exists in an edition of 1/1 plus a maximum of 2 Artist Editions. Minimum size 80 cm long edge, printed on museum-quality materials by WhiteWall.
Prices from €850; bespoke advice and custom-made items available on request.
One photograph from this series was awarded the Best Photography Award 2024 in the "Abstract Photography" category.
Another entry received an Honourable Mention in the "Open Theme" category of the same competition, meaning it was singled out for its high quality.
You can find out more about the competition and the winning entries in the blog.
All the images were taken using Intentional Camera Movement (ICM): deliberate camera movement during exposure, combined with an ND filter to allow for longer exposure times in daylight.
No post-processing of the movement, no digital manipulation to create the visual effect.
What you see was created at the moment the photograph was taken.
These pictures capture the beauty of the wine-growing landscape.
And that change is not the end of something, but the beginning of something yet to be seen.