Phillipa Klaiber (b.1992) is a photographic artist and educator. Her multidisciplinary practice blends documentary and conceptual image making – using photography, plant-based processes, archives, writing and collaborations. Phillipa’s work explores themes of Queerness, Ecology and Natural-cultural Histories.
Phillipa has an MA in Photography from the University of the West of England, where she now works as a Senior Technical Instructor in Photography.
From Phillipa’s website.
‘Understories’ is an intimate study of a decaying Beech tree and the lives that are fostered in its death. The work explores the duality of anticipatory grief – where sorrow and loss coexist with the possibility of renewal.
Vorest, is a meditation on the changing landscape of an ancient forest, where culture and nature are inescapably linked. Vorest considers the relationship between the narratives of the past and the environment in the present; a shift in perspective from the modern idea of ownership of land, to a more balanced relationship with it.
Phillipa is now getting rplanning and researching a new project inspires by the River Shannon and is stories.
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