I’m a photographer. Father. Passionate diver. I travel the world and have always enjoyed the unmistakable beauty of nature. I’ve taken tons of pictures of this beauty. This is what I do best. Catching moments, impressions, feelings with my camera. Creating photographs is my way of dealing with a subject. And it is how I can bring attention to the problem of plastic in our oceans.
Series
photoMÜNCHEN 2020
7 images
With my art, I don’t want to shock anyone, but rather draw attention to a subject to make people think. I believe that humanity has learned to repress shocking images. The more frightening the pictures, the more ineffective they become in the end. Shocking images of sea creatures are not processed any further by many people. They have no relationship to the ocean, and therefore have no relationship to its living beings, and so they do nothing. From this, I developed my idea for the Plastic Ocean Project. Representing everything that is beautiful in this world, I show beautiful people. Representing our future, I show our next generation. I show both groups in the water among plastic garbage, which was collected along the coast of Italy in a single day. Through the next set of images I isolate individual plastic items from the first series and juxtapose them with facts to create more awareness about the extent of the plastic problem in our oceans. In order to give the whole project even more impact, I will be showing the artworks where our plastic problem is most acute: in the sea. More precisely, as an underwater exhibition on the wreck of the USS Vandenberg off the coast of Key West, FL, from May 24 through August 2019, where they can be viewed by anyone willing to dive to its depths. Once the images are removed from the ocean and dried, they will be exhibited on land, with the unique pa
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