Screaming Landscapes

• Photographer
  Hilde Maassen
• Agency / Studio
  Hilde Maassen Photography
• Technical Info
  I Make A Bump Map Of The Image, Make It In A 3d Later That I Combine With The Original Image.
• Photo Date
  2019

We live in uncertain times with massive tensions in the economy, our democratic politics and what is happening with climate change. I want to show what is already contained in nature but invisible for the human eye. By making a bump map based on the contrast in the photo, I show a hidden spatial experience of the photo. It looks as if the photo or, part of it, breaks open and shows what lives inside. This way a new truth is created that is a surreal representation of the pain our world is in already. We now stare at a post apocalyptic future from which we choose to look away.

Hilde Maassen knew she wanted to study art from the age of ten. When she discovered photography, at eleven, the semi-automated process that offers an endless array of possibilities to capture and adapt transform or manipulate everyday reality, she was addicted. After 25 years as a photographer and educator, she decided to pursue a master's degree to figure out what she wanted to do for the next 25 years. She rediscovered the joy of experimental photography. In 2021, she graduated cum laude with a project that continues to evolve, "Clouds Revealed, in Dialogue with the Photographic Medium."