Zak van Biljon choses a new way of looking at nature. The increasing urbanization of mankind today ends our symbiotic relationship with nature. Cities are growing into mega-cities, more than half of today's population was born in cities, and this new generation is a technological generation focused on convenience, but: without nature. And yet: humanity can never free itself from nature. The vivid pinks and reds in Zak van Biljon's work will therefore attract those neon city dwellers who believe they have overcome nature, yet are subconsciously reminded of the nature out there. His art wants the viewer to remember the real landscape when looking at the supposedly unreal world of his photographs. Zak van Biljon was born 1981 in South Africa. He moved to Europe in 2004.

Over a period of more than four years Sandro Livio Straube (*1992) photographed in the Val Lumnezia for his series "Mountains bleach". The limitation to an analog medium format camera and a fixed focal length, as well as the strict geographical perimeter, led to a sought after narrowness and thus to a more intense perception. The photographs show what would otherwise also soon disappear. As a silent observer, he dares to look reality in the eye for a fraction of a second - the moment the shutter is released. Only when later viewing the respective finished picture is he forced anew to face these realities permanently. It often leads to a shock about his sensitivities to his own pictures and how they came about in the first place. The wanderings through his beloved valley follow the inner drive to muster the courage to really look. Straube is an architect and photographer.

The series "Human Nature" by Kostas Maros attracts with its uncanny quality – the images look almost staged and unreal, and the photographer plays really well with our expectations: should we be looking at the situations unfolding on the images? At the landscape? At the humans? Nature plays both a role of a protagonist and a subject, becoming a spectacle for both humans in the photographs and the viewers. The author’s sense of humour and undoubted photographic skill turns this selection of mundane scenes into a statement about the state of the world, revealing the human's relationship with nature from an observer’s distance, which almost gives us as the viewers an opportunity to inhabit each image, to research it and to reevaluate our own stance in the matter. Maros presents a very strong photographic survey of the human condition. Kostas Maros (*1980) completed his legal studies at the University of Basel and worked in the legal field before he switched to photography as an autodidact in 2013.