• Adam Thorman (US)

A series of ‘creatures’ seen by finding the animate in the inanimate, viewing the world through the lens of pareidolia.

• Daniel Chatard (DE)

An investigation of the impact of brown coal extraction in Germany’s Rhineland, showing the emotional and physical toll of the mining operations.

• Martin Tscholl (DE)

Meadows, forests, and mountains in a web of interconnections extending beyond the realm of humans, but originating from the same ontological ground.

• Hiske Altena (NL)

A visual exploration of the ‘clay hypothesis’, the theory according to which clay helped the evolution of early life forms.

• Stephen Cornford (GB)

A colourful speculation on the deep future of electronic waste as it sediments into Earth’s stratigraphic record.

• Sibylle Eimermacher (DE)

A visual record of observations of glacial erratics in Dutch terrains and their Scandinavian bedrock.

• Claudia den Boer (NL)

Examining the experience of light, scale and spatiality through an eclectic variety of images of mountains, rocks and stones.

• Natascha Libbert (NL)

About life in the technical zone around locks, ports and ships, following the renovation of the sea lock in IJmuiden, port access to Amsterdam.

• Simon Brugner (AT)

A combination of a visual study and cultural-historical research findings on the ‘arsenic eaters’ from the pre-20th century rural population of the Alps.

• Laura Van Severen (BE)

Investigating the transformation and fragmentation of the landscape around talc stone quarries in the Pyrenees.