Tim Theo Deceuninck
Gent, België
Tim Theo Deceuninck (*1992) is a photography based artist working in the field of landscape representation / regenerative ecologies. Through historical processes and narratives, the artist tries to gain deeper insight in the use and memory of the landscape and attempts to imagine our environment as a collaboration with non-human entities, resulting in images between nature and culture. As part of his process he extracts botanical tinctures and essences to develop non-toxic, organic, rooted photographies and tempers with photo-chemistry, camera mechanics and lens elements.
In his most recent work Tim Theo started constructing 'land-cameras'. The land camera is a deconstruction of the camera to its bare minimum, a camera obscura constructed from the same land it is trying to portray, made from holes in tree-trunks, rabbit holes, ditches, mud…