New Alpine Landscapes

It’s in December when the high season of the skiing regions in North- and Southern- Tyrol, Austria starts. The ski lifts slowly start to rattle, hotels activate their air freshener and cars block the narrow streets of the Alpine valleys. It’s the season where tourists come and go without a brake until the end of March. Everything is ready and well prepared. It’s just the lack of snow that interferes with the seemingly perfect winter wonderland. But that doesn’t matter as the snow guns can do the job just perfectly fine. Ever since the winter temperatures have been rising in the alpine regions, the ski industry had to find its ways to make up for the arising lack of snow. They developed technologies to produce artificial snow and by that invented a new, a better nature. This project describes the relationship between human mankind and nature in an age of climate change on the micro perspective of emerging new alpine landscapes.

Elias Holzknecht

Elias Holzknecht is a freelance photographer based between Hannover (Germany) and Innsbruck (Austria). Studying Documentary- and Reportage-Photography in Hannover, he is interested in social and geopolitical issues.