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Aindreas Scholz

London
German-Irish artist based in London, working with cameraless and ecological photography. My practice uses sunlight, water chemistry and plant matter to create climate-adapted images shaped by place, contamination and care.
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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.

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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.

 

The Most Beautiful Anthropocene #51

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