Nathalie Ericson, Bergtagen
The photo series “Bergtagen” (Taken by the Mountain) is about enigmatic places that guide you through a light of signs in the forest. My ambition was to convey the mysteriousness of nature as I experience it. Not to capture nature as it is, but more through a surprising
perspective.
The imagery is a reflection of how you get access to nature, just for a moment until it takes you with it in its tangleness of plants, mycelium and soil. The series expresses a haunted mood combined with a mysterious touch of a distant light.
About the artist
Nathalie Ericson (b.1991) is a photographer based in Kinnekulle, Sweden. She has an education in Fine art Photography and has a bachelor's degree in cultural studies, specializing in art history and visual studies. Nathalie began exploring the medium of photography in 2011 and later found her style with a twin-lens reflex camera. She explores questions about existence, mortality and inner worlds. She often uses herself as a subject half-hidden together with recurring motifs and nature's flora and fauna to create suggestive stories. Nathalie's practice and style is shaped by the analog medium, experimental techniques and the intuitive process. Like a storyteller she arranges the photos searching for a poetic language of the inner self. She uses a metaphorical language that can make you wonder and dream about another time. Her work has been exhibited in her hometown in Sweden and internationally in Germany, France and Slovakia.