These records of mountains, rivers and snowfields, without a single human silhouette, clearly, distinctly and powerfully describe the grief and resistance of the photographers as members of mankind. Be they Hang Mingshi’s works documentating the surroundings of his hometown or Jean de Pomereu’s images of the remote South Pole, these photographs all teach us about the current status of the relationship between mankind and our mother earth.

In essence, photography is non-interventional in nature, however it is precisely the non-interventional approach of their records of observation which express these photographers’ own resolution.

‘Movement’ of this nature can not be attributed to the praise of lyrical beauty and also exceeds the simple act of freezing a natural phenomenon. Through the stillness of the mountain range and the constant silence of the earth, a tremour is conveyed.

Moving Mountains
By Fan Lin