Hey everyone, @ninamariallmoslechner here, I am one of the artists from the latest ‘The Nature of Change; A Lambeth Adult Learning Showcase’ exhibition & a member here at Photofusion and I am taking over the account for the next few days✨

I am a London and Tyrol-based photographer and multidisciplinary artist of Austrian origin (b.1998) who graduated in Documentary Photography BA from the University of Arts London. My work mainly involves alternative processes such as Super 8mm film, analogue photography and the family archive. My practice is predominantly concerned with vulnerable topics around mental health, womanhood, lens-based memory representation and the natural earth.

I am a Co-Organizer of Fail Better talks.

Iceland has become a sacred place for me to develop new body of works, including my latest ongoing project ‘dedicated to Ida’ (2023-) which is about the first female solo travel writer in the world, Ida Pfeiffer (1797-1858) who was from Austria like myself and 'when white blankets will be gone', (2021-) a project about melting glaciers in my home in Austria and the largest glacier in Europe, where I have been working with my grandfather's Super8mm archive.

Part of ‘when white blankets will be gone’ was part of ‘Look Into My Ice’, an international exhibition project within the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 focusing on the disappearance of polar and glacier.

‘Vatnjajoekulls heart’ (2023), from the vanishing glacier series is currently on display as part of ‘The Nature of Change’ here at Photofusion.

"When White Blankets Will Be Gone" is a multimedia exploration of vanishing glaciers, rooted in a deeply personal connection to the natural world. Inspired by my grandfather's photographic and Super 8mm record of Austrian glaciers from the early 1970s, this project seeks to bridge the past and present through a visual and auditory journey.

A moment occurred in the summer of 2021, while visiting my grandparents in the Austrian Alps, I discovered a photograph of my father and grandfather standing before a glacier. My father's subsequent comment, "I can't believe how much these glaciers have changed already," ignited this project.

My childhood in the Austrian Alps fostered a profound appreciation for glacial landscapes. As these majestic formations recede, I am compelled to document their transformation and honour the memories associated with them.

2025 has now been announced as ‘The International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation 2025 and World Day for Glaciers, which has its focus to raise global awareness about melting/vanishing glaciers and what the environmental impacts are because of our forever changing landscape on Earth.

Installation photographs from the @look.into.my.ice exhibition during @tartu2024 @kunstimaja by: @andreas_baudisch + @jyrgenvainola

As a female artist, I feel responsible for using my story to open up wider conversations around womanhood. Often I do not know how to talk about these things, so I create something purely for myself to understand these situations better, and as soon as there comes understanding, I like to believe that conversations are happening.

‘homeward bound’ (2021-) started as a visual research project during my documentary photography degree at the University of the Arts London, which had its focus on premature puberty and the difficulties that women may face in early womanhood.

Slowly, I have been taking visual material as a response to my own experience with premature puberty and how getting my period at the age of 7,5 years old slowly became a forced womanhood which affected the relationship with my body and mind. The project is divided in different ongoing chapters such as the more body focused one that tells the story of body dysmorphia and eating disorders and the chapters that focus on the mental aspects.

I tend to take Self Portraits in the forest back home in Austria for a chapter that touches on my Derealisation Disorder, where putting myself into nature around the forest mostly, and the trees do not judge but hold some space, has helped me to connect when I felt disconnected; being present feels so far away, and so long ago.

Printing in the darkroom is a therapeutic process that has helped me to find connection in times of disconnection.