Michael Gutsche Photography

Inspired by painter Franz Gertsch and his 'Blue Period', I created a series of monochrome landscape photographs of the Viamala region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. My process synthesises digital imagery reduced to a monochrome blue with an old photographic printing process that was technically limited to blue and white.

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Paying tribute to my adopted home in Switzerland, my aim was to create mystical modern landscape images that do not show untouched nature, but depict traces of a centuries-old civilisation with sensitivity and respect.

And yet the motifs retain the pristine but rough and wild character of the scenery, where no rock is alike. The motifs reflect my own experiences in the mountains, of light and shadow, of clouds and wafts of fog. The viewer is rewarded by a closer look, which at times reveals secrets among the apparent hatchings: these could be icicles, blades of grass, animals or even people.

Exhibitions

Galerie Bilder-Fuchs, Fulda 2024

Viamala – Cycle in Blue (2024)

Beverin

Pizzas d'Anarosa

Tarantschun

Alp Carnusa

Alp Anarosa 1

Alp Anarosa 2

Gaden Avers

Alp Mursenas

Beverin Lücke 1

Viamala-Schlucht 1

Viamala-Schlucht 2

Junger Rhein