Matej Filipič

Horizons of prosperity is a project exploring the human desire and necessity to interact with its environment. Engineering and adapting land have been a staple of the Netherlands since the Middle Ages, leading to much of its land being heavily transformed by the constant work, effort, and presence of man. The people who inhabited and worked the land over the centuries left behind traces of their culture and character, traces that at first glance strike as imperfections in the spotless Dutch landscape yet are the very elements I photographed. They mark the landscape with something specific to a culture while indexing the transition of land into landscape and questioning the meaning of “nature” in view of human impact on the environment.