Ecosystem
We need to stop making the difference between human and nature.
We need to stop thinking of them appart.
We need to considere them all in the same picture.
We need to considere them together as the heart.
We need to start working together.
We need to become one.
Before we are all gone.
Before we’re destoying each other.
A photo of a landscape alone, of a biotope, of a place, is merely line and structure. But it's when we include the emotions of living beings, of biocenoses, that we perceive life. The ecosystem is born from the combination of a biotope and biocenoses. In this case, a place and the people who fill it. According to Blanc-Pamard, "scientific and objective analysis characterizes a space differentiated into biotopes, on the basis of physical criteria. Societies have another point of view; they attribute values to the environment, in relation to their system of production".
This collection of photographs illustrates what I imagine to be an ecosystem.
For the more adventurous, here are a few scientific references that have given me food for thought:
Bailly, A.-S. (1989). L'imaginaire spatial. A plea for the geography of representations. Espaces Temps, 40(1), 53-58. https://doi.org/10.3406/espat.1989.3461
Blanc-Pamard, C. (1986). Dialoguer avec le paysage or how ecological space is seen and practiced by rural communities in the Malagasy highlands.
Latour, B. (2017). Where to land? La Découverte.
