Viscerally carnal and hauntingly vacant, Dany Peschl’s exquisite photographs encapsulate the powerful link between intimacy and landscape. With an eye to the absurd and an acute sense of narrative, Peschl portrays modernity stripped bare, bereft of culture and class, stark and surreal against the brutal landscapes of the high mountains. Shot during Spring and Summer 2011, Peschl’s “To The Mountains,†captures individuals and imagery from the high places of Europe. Taken at a variety of evocative locations at elevation across the continent, this series evokes the power of the peaks and the strange fire and passion of the individuals who populate them. Each image is a story temporarily suspended, hovering between truth and fiction, symbolism and personal significance, stark realistic depiction and surreal dark humor. Wintery meditations on life and death, old and new, rock, stone, fur, skin and blood, Peschl’s images never stop beckoning with a stormy call, summoning us to the mountains.
