“The Most Beautiful Anthropocene” is a cameraless photographic project exploring ecological afterlives in landscapes shaped by environmental collapse. Created using expired, light-exposed darkroom paper and cyanotype chemistry mixed with seawater and rain, each image is co-authored with natural elements such as plants, minerals, and sunlight. From drought-scarred Spain to storm-battered Scottish coasts, the work resists spectacle, offering instead a quiet poetics of resilience and survival. The prints remain ‘alive’, responding over time to light, moisture, and temperature. Embedded with traces of pollution, salt, rust, and sediment, they ask how we might reconnect with post-apocalyptic nature, each other, and what endures after the world we once knew has been claimed by rising seas.
about the artist
Scholz is a UK-based photographer working with cameraless, sustainable photography. His practice explores ecological care, material vulnerability, and slow image-making through collaboration with natural elements and coastal communities.
