![]() ![]() Definitions of wilderness, engagements with non-human animals and virtually anything else relating to our relations with our environments are all derived from our various socio-cultural histories. In fact, the ways in which we see nature is inherently a cultural question. How far is nature from our everyday lives, and what are the relations between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’, two concepts otherwise often so casually located as each other’s polar opposites? The exhibition at CODA includes the work of sixteen other artists that work with lens-based media, who are all dealing with the themes of the human connection and proximity to the natural world. One of the first Dutch nature photographers, Tepe recently was included in the Gallery of Honour of Dutch Photography at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam. Inside the Outside at CODA in Apeldoorn departs from the work of Richard Tepe, whose photographs of the Dutch natural landscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century contributed greatly to the first nature conservation efforts in the Netherlands. ![]() For the fifth episode of his series on art and ecology, Joris van den Einden departs from the exhibition Inside the Outside – pioneers in lens-based media at CODA in Apeldoorn to think more broadly about the specific ways in which photography and other lens-based media can work to visualise a concept so diverse in its interpretation as ‘nature’. ![]()
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