Aindreas Scholz
My practice uses climate-adapted cameraless photographic processes to make images as material records of environmental change. Working without a camera, I collaborate with sunlight, water chemistry, and plant matter so that atmospheric and ecological conditions, acidic rain, polluted seawater, and disturbed soils, physically imprint the photographic surface. The works sit between image and evidence: photographs that are also traces of place, contamination, and vulnerability.
Across several ongoing series, I treat the print as an ‘ecological wetroom’ where other-than-human agencies co-author the outcome. I work with climate-adapted cyanolumen on expired, pre-exposed RC darkroom paper using acidic rain and fragile plant material; combine climate-adapted cyanotype with soil chromatography on Whatman filter paper using polluted seawater, acidic rain, and disturbed soil; and develop climate-adapted cyanotypes on archival watercolour paper using polluted seawater, sea salt, and vulnerable plants. These materially driven methods draw on photography’s intertwined, and often contested, histories of scientific inscription and archival record, while insisting that the photographic sheet can function as a site where climate and matter become visible.
I do not merely wish to represent climate change; I ask how photography, through its materials, methods, and infrastructures, can become more active in resisting it.
Lived Experience
Aindreas Scholz is a German-Irish photographer based in London, working with cameraless and ecological photographic processes. He makes climate-adapted works that collaborate with sunlight, water chemistry, and plant matter, inviting rain, seawater, salinity, and disturbed soils to physically imprint the photographic surface. His images sit between aesthetics and proof: photographs that function as material traces of place, contamination, and vulnerability.
Scholz is represented by In-Dependance and has exhibited widely across the UK and Europe, including solo and two-person presentations as well as important group shows spanning analogue and sustainable photography contexts. His practice has been supported through awards and grants, including Arts Council England and research support from the Paul Mellon Centre. His work is held in public and institutional collections, including the Office of Public Works (Ireland) and NHS Foundation Trusts (UK).
Alongside his studio practice, he lectures and leads workshops on sustainable analogue and historical processes. He studied photography at Technological University Dublin, completed postgraduate study in fine art at Goldsmiths, University of London, and trained as an educator at University College London.
Rather than treating climate change as an image problem, Scholz approaches photography as a material system that can be reworked: a practice of testing, measuring, and taking responsibility for chemistry, water, and waste. His ongoing projects ask what it would mean for photographic making to become an active form of care, one that helps reshape the medium’s footprint, not just its narratives.
SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Most Beautiful Anthropocene, Galerie LIK, Vienna, AT (two-person).
And So I Watch You From Afar, Artlink, Fort Dunree, IE (solo).
2023 And So I Watch You From Afar, Shoal Residents, Island Darkroom, Achmore, GB (solo).
And So I Watch You From Afar, Artist in Residence, Galerie Kruse, Flensburg, DE (solo).
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 RPS IPE 166, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK.
Unseen Photo Fair, Rotterdam, NL.
MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas, Milan, IT.
Analog Made by Hand, Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, US.
In Situ, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait City, KW.
Salon/25, Photofusion, London, UK.
2025 The Alternative Landscape, In_Dependance, Antwerp, BE.
re_exposed, Foto Wien, WUK, Vienna, AT.
Photo Frome, Frome, GB.
Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT.
Sustainable Photography?, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK.
RPS IPE 166, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London, UK.
Select/25, Photofusion, London, UK.
Plant Power, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn, UK.
2024 Salon/24, Photofusion, London, UK.
BIG 20, OVADA, Oxford, UK.
Symbiosis II, LAPC, London, UK.
Grand Prix, Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, PL.
2023 The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London, UK.
FUTURES Photography 2023, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin Castle, Dublin, IE
Tsundoku Art Book Fair, Dublin, IE.
2022 Extraction: Loss and Restoration, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn, UK.
Dear 2050: Oceans on the Rise, Munot Gallery, Schaffhausen, CH.
The RWA 169 Annual Open Exhibition, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK.
HALFTONE, The Library Project, Dublin, IE.
The Human Blueprint, Rotterdam Photo Festival, Rotterdam, NL.
Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT.
Bath Photo Festival, Bath, GB.
2021 Health and the Climate & Ecological Emergency, UCLH, London, UK.
Salon/21, Photofusion, Brixton, London, UK.
2020 Earth Photo 2020, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK.
190th Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin, IE.
2019 Creekside Open 2019, APT, London, UK.
2017 Hello!, Berthold Pott Galerie, Cologne, DE.
SELECTED AWARDS, BURSARIES & GRANTS
2026 Glover-Rayner Prize, Photofusion, London, winner.
Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund, Bayside, CA, recipient.
1839 Awards, Mount Pleasant, SC, USA, winner.
a-n Artists’ Bursaries, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, recipient.
2025 Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England, London, UK, recipient.
AGBI Award, London, UK, recipient.
Artlink Solo Exhibition Award, Fort Dunree, IE, recipient.
Realisation Grant, The Centre for British Photography, London, UK, recipient.
SANE Creative Awards Scheme, London, UK, recipient.
Rhonda Wilson Award, NYC, USA, finalist.
2024 Paul Mellon Centre, Studies in British Art Research Support Grant, London, UK, recipient.
Photofusion Select/24, London, UK, joint winner.
Vintage Grand Prix, Bydgoszcz, PL, finalist.
AA2A, Artist Support Fund, Nottingham, UK, recipient.
2023 RSCF Foundation Grant for Analogue Photography, Edinburgh, UK, recipient.
Denis Roussel Award, Work of Merit, Austin, TX, USA, recipient.
The Eaton Fund, Fleet, UK, recipient.
FUTURES Photography, Amsterdam, NL, nominated.
TPG Bursary: Understanding Early Photographic Processes, London, UK, recipient.
2022 Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Vienna, AT, joint winner.
Rotterdam Photo Festival, Rotterdam, NL, joint winner.
FORMAT International Photography Review Bursary, Derby, GB, recipient.
2021 Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Vienna, AT, joint winner.
Earth Photo, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, finalist.
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2026 Arctica, Svalbard, NO (forthcoming).
2025 Finnish Darkroom Association, Helsinki, FI.
WASPS, The Booth, Scalloway, UK.
2024 The Grange Projects, Great Gressingham, UK.
Le Puget, Gaja-la-Selve, FR.
AA2A Artist in Residence, Cambridge, UK.
FIKAR, Failaka, KW.
2023 JOYA AiR, Vélez-Blanco, ES.
Island Darkroom, Achmore, UK.
Galerie Kruse, Artist in Residence, Flensburg, DE.
2022 Linkshouse Orkney Arts Residency, Birsay, UK.
GroundWork Gallery, Artist in Residence, Reepham, UK.
Cow House Studios Open Residency, Rathnure, IE.
SELECTED WORK IN COLLECTIONS
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; Galerie Kruse, DE; Groundwork Gallery, UK; FIKAR, KW; IBASHO Gallery, BE; NHS Foundation Trust, UK; the Office of Public Works, IE and private collections in BE, IRE and UK.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
All About Photo (2026) AAP Magazine 54: Nature. AAP Magazine, issue 54.
Ephemere Photo Books (2025). Eroding Forms. Ephemere.
Galbraith, S. (2025) ‘What Research is Being Funded?’, Source, (177), p. 11. Belfast: Photo Works North.
Neophytou, A. (2025) A Guide to Ecological Thinking in Photography, Vol. 3. [online] PHmuseum.
Studies in Photography (2025) ‘Leaves’, Issue Six, pp. 78–81.
Suboart Magazine, Nr. 51–52, December 2025.
Toland, A.R. and Watts, P.L. (eds.) (2025) Soils Turn. Santa Fe, NM: ecoartspace.
Fabbri, M. (2024). Pure Inspiration, volume 1. Croydon: CPI Group.
Shutter Hub. (2024). TO THE SEA: A Shutter Hub Editions publication. Shutter Hub.
Toepfer et al. (2024) ‘The Most Beautiful Anthropocene’, Camera Austria International, 165, pp. 60–61.
Watts, P. (2024). The New Geological Epoch. New Jersey: Conveyor Studios.
Climanosco. (2022). Dear 2050: Oceans on the Rise. Schaffhausen, 12.12.2021 – 12.03.2022 [exhibition catalogue].
Zigutamve. (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). Rotlicht Festival Catalogue. Vienna [exhibition catalogues].
SELECTED LECTURES, TALKS & WORKSHOPS (INVITATION)
2026 Sustainable Analogue and Historical Processes, photoSchweiz, Zurich, CH (workshop).
Seeing Soil, Alternative Process Academy (online lecture).
2025 Experimental workshop on Camera-less photography, Lumen X, Vienna, AT (workshop).
Experimental Cyanotype, MFA, The Margate School, Margate, UK (workshop).
Explore Earth’s Palette, Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, PL (workshop).
Die Kunst des Chemigrams, Wiesbadener Fototage, Wiesbaden, DE (workshop).
Experimental Cyanotype Workshop, Artlink, Fort Dunree, IE (workshop).
Introduction to Phyto-Lumen Art, Analogue Now, Berlin, DE (workshop).
Experimental Cyanotype Workshop, Finnish Darkroom Association, Helsinki, FI (workshop).
Experimental and Sustainable Photo Books Using Camera-less Photography, Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Vienna, AT (workshop).
2024 Analogue Culture Today!, Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Vienna, AT (talk).
OVADA: Associate Q&As with Aindreas Scholz, OVADA, Oxford, GB (talk).
Cyanotype Cameraless Photography, Shifting Tides, Rostrevor, GB (workshop).
Lumen Workshop, Climanosco, Langenthal, CH (workshop).
Towards a Sustainable Darkroom, Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, IE (workshop).
2023 After TU Dublin: Building a Creative Trajectory, BA Photography, TU Dublin, IE (lecture).
Experimental Analogue Photography Workshop, Tsundoku Art Fair, Dublin, IE (workshop).
Chemigram Workshop, Galerie Kruse, Flensburg, DE (workshop).
Unfixed Landscapes, Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Vienna, AT (workshop).
EDUCATION
2017 PGCE, Institute of Education, University College London, UK.
2015 MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
2009 BA (Hons) Photography, Technological University Dublin, IE.
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