Gabriel Van Ingen is a photographer interested in the relationship between the representation and perception of the environment that emerges through physical and sensual experiences.
He employs immersive, performative, co-creative, material interventions, and temporal modes of enquiry to explore the complex intra-actions between embodied experiences, the environment and the photographic image. Van Ingen’s practice is specifically driven by his physically demanding and embodied methods of immersion, submersion and freediving to inhabit the environment and to trouble the terrestrial bias of landscape photography.
Through research led and physical undertakings, he subverts traditional, ocular-centric photography that seeks to fix a representation of nature. Instead, he explores the limits of the ‘non photographic’ image and ‘invisible’ images that advocate the vibrant, more-than-human agency of our environment.