Oups, I didn't know the story, sorry.
Now that I read
https://loe.org/shows/segments.html?...35&segmentID=9 "The Ethics of Nature Photography", I understand you better.
Happily he took some photographs before he filled the arch with smoke ;-)
- But this discussion is perhaps a little bit hypocritical: think of all the thousands and millions of tourists who fly in with big aeroplanes, take a daily shower or bath, bring in their plastic astronaut nutrition or plastic sleeping bags and clothes and tents etc every day, only to document that they were here and there, often with smartphones made in China sweatshops, with children digged Coltan from Africa etc.
https://annemckinnell.com/blog/wp-co..._4-Edit_lg.jpg
Perhaps Fatalis behavior is only a symptom. As far as I read the workshop members didn't complain when he lit his fires.
Is there a pristine nature, still? - Corresponding to landscape photographers, eg. Justin Lowery: why do they / we search something like pristine nature / motifs instead of documenting the impact of men like Fatalis on landscape? I think the mentioned website above is a better documentation of a socio-ecological environment / biotope than the Velvia-Cibachrome-IMac prints of a Fatalis or a Lowery. They're only small details, cutouts, a suspension of reality, highly subjective, kitsch, Bob Ross (I adore him), an escape from reality, towards (simplified) shapes and (a few compleasant) colors and esthetical structures. - Is it a question of religion? Do we search something that is already lost?
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