As an everyday commitment, I explore human and nonhuman entanglements within the subarctic and arctic regions through the prisms of photography and environmental humanities. My research-creation is a critical and curious engagement with more-than-human worlds, opening up questions of living together on a troubled planet. 

Ever since a first coincidental visit in 2012 to the mining town of Fermont, Canada, I have been dedicating my life and work to the complex and multiple spaces of the North. Since then, I have been engaging with impacts of extractivism, industrial architecture, or the power of imagination on/in Northern multispecies communities, as well as with related challenges linked for instance to food justice, toxic bodies and landscapes, or feminine subsistence. A few years ago, I moved to Tromsø/Romsa on the Norwegian side of Sápmi, where I am particularly intrigued by the tensions between western and indigenous ways of life in the region. 

Currently, I think-create through plant-based photographic processes, ranging from fermenting my film rolls or film souping them, to developing the negatives in organic homemade developers and making contact prints with plant juice. Weather phenomena, hands, water, salts, berries and bacteria help to think through issues like sustainability, preservation, economics, or ethics concerning both our plant companions as well as photography.

The multiple theoretical lenses I employ to navigate these different webs are in many ways linked to feminist environmental humanities, indigenous studies, materialisms and social anthropology. Building upon participative long-term fieldwork, my holistic research involves a reciprocity that the thinking-with other species and nonhuman actors demands. Using my analogue medium format camera as a compass, I connect with beings, things and places, allowing for genuine exchanges on all levels. Feeling rather than seeing, I let myself be guided and surprised by the flow of interactions, leaving space for the quiet and hidden dialogues.

Throughout this process, I sit with the questions of research ethics and sustainability, constantly questioning my own gaze and role as a researcher. From a place of connection and respect for the more-than-human beings involved, I engage with different ways of knowing and doing in order to give and enrich.