Ester Vonplon – Windbeat

In her artistic practice, Swiss photographer Ester Vonplon (b. 1980) focuses on the natural world around her. She is less interested in how human activity is affecting the landscape, in ways that are becoming increasingly evident, than in the places that are – apparently – still intact and pristine. Aware of the fragility of these ecosystems, she wants to capture nature in photographs before it disappears (perhaps imminently) as a result of climatic change and human intervention. In light of this, she describes her pictures as memento mori, an illustration of the vulnerability of nature and thus also its transience.