Nature - NOMINEE: Mark Wohlrab

Monte Kali /
Salt halves at the Werra

At the sight of these mountains one feels, on the one hand, encouraged to give in to the aesthetics of the mountain landscape, but on the other hand it is irritated and horrified by this heap, dumped by human hands into the landscape. Over 150 million tonnes of salt produced as a waste product of potash extraction, with all the environmental problems associated with rivers and groundwater.
There are landmarks, extreme interventions in the landscape and an ecological powder barrel.

About author:
* 1967
photography-study at Fachhochschule Dortmund with diploma graduation 1996
Freelance photographer since 1994 ,
several jobs, exhibitions and free photoprojects ; landscape, architecture, music and others.
nominated for the Felix-Schöller-photoaward 2015 in the category landscape with the series "Industrial forest"
nominated for the Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Award 2016 with the photo "Bruder Klaus Field Chapel"
working also as a teacher for photography. in several institutions.