HENRI BLOMMERS
Homo reconnectus

Homo Reconnectus
Regeneration is necessary if we want to overcome the climate crisis: regenerative agriculture (traditional farming without the use of chemicals, artificial fertilizers, concentrate feed) and nature management where leftover livestock lives off residual streams, stimulating impoverishment and thus promoting biodiversity.

The biggest regenerative gains can be achieved by a different form of thinking: connect different pieces of nature so that cross-pollination can take place and animals can find conspecifics, so connect both pieces of forest and gardens. But also the idea of ownership will have to change, our garden is not our property we are only temporary stewards. Chaos is good and not the controlled garden or black earth.
Humans who owe their advantage as a species to working together sometimes seem to exploit this too much, therefore the future will point the way for a new type of human, the Homo Reconnectus.

Author
Henri Blommers is an Amsterdam-based fine-art photographer working in general analog, with a variety of cameras and techniques. He creates a refuge out-of-this-world dimension full of bold colors, based on contemporary socially engaged themes like plastics and the impact on our future, and digital influences on our lives, and is co-creator of Hello Gorgeous magazine fighting the stigma around HIV.

In his projects, Henri materializes the images by cooking film in plant material, soaking negatives for weeks in salt, or spraying agricultural chemicals on film.

Website
henriblommers.nl

Instagram
@henriblommers

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