This is Sonke  Faltien, please excuse the photo. He writes:

My main interest lies in the representation of landscape and what meaning these representations have in respect to our perception of landscape.

I am especially interested in the way societies change the landscape to accommodate their needs and how different societies identify themselves (or are identified by others) through the way land is treated and perceived.

The questions that arise from researching, visiting and experiencing specific places are of a political, sociological and psychological nature. My work is created in response to these questions, not as an answer to them, but as an attempt to rephrase the situation and present it in a different context.

For example “Unfinished Business”, a wide-angled diptych of Cairo’s sprawling conurbation towards the Pyramids in Giza, deals with the conflict between preserving cultural heritage and controversial town-planning and urbanisation.

Though large format photography is at the centre of my practice, I also work with print, sculptural installation and film, especially Super 8mm.