2. ABOUT NATURE, 6x6
NATURE, 6x6 is a long term project that I have been working on for almost three ye-
ars now. After growing up in a small village in the countryside of the prealps, I moved
to Berlin to study photography. After moving to a big and loud city I begann realizing
how beautiful and calming nature can be. So whenever I came back to visit family and
friends, I went to the woods, had long walks and tried to soak in the fresh air. But
slowly I began to comprehend that not only big cities, like Berlin, are influenced by
mankind – also woods and what we see as our nature is so (I usually work around the
theme of human traces in urban places). So after that, I started to photograph these
human interventions in nature – which are hidden If you do not pay close attention.
To stimulate the viewers perception I decided to also include photos that, seem to be a
reflection of pure nature.
All pictures were taken with an old Yashica A 6x6, with the aim to try to fit the calm-
ness of the woods to the style of photography.
ABOUT LUCA ELLENA
Luca Ellena, 1997, is a photographer born and raised in Fribourg, Switzerland. After
studying Photograpy at the Neue Schule für Fotografie in Berlin he moved back to Fri-
bourg, started working as a photographer and begann studying media and communi-
cation studies at the University of Fribourg. Luca Ellena had his work shown in various
group- and one solo exhibition. He is represented by the gallery Monika Wertheimer in
Basel. In August 2020 the art book publisher KERBER VERLAG will publish his first
monograph EINKAUFSWAGEN (English: Shopping Carts). The same project is presen-
ted at photo basel 2020 and at the gallery Monika Wertheimer in the coming year.
Contact:
luca@ellena.ch
078 971 13 14
