ABSTRACT
In investigating land and environment photographers draw on a range of methods and resources. Through analysis of selected contemporary examples this talk critically reflects on aesthetics, photo-methodologies, and inter-disciplinary approaches to researching land and landscape as related to socio-historical continuities and change and to environmental trauma.
Published in English and Swedish, this was initially written in response to an invitation to contribute to a symposium at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden on photography concerned with environmental issues. Their interest emerged from research projects engaged with the changing landscape in Arctic Svalbard and from there then developing links to international work within photography and the environment, for which the Academy has become a key research centre.
