unk of industrially used energy for sectors like weapons, textil and newly emerging energy intensive digital-industries surrounding the pit.

The forest is still occupied even though a moratorium was passed to save it from further destruction. In october 2020 this moratorium has run out without a real solution or legal settlement. Amidst the fighting this forest too has lost it‘s innocence ... two people have died, while trying to defend this natural habitat. Independent of each other, they were hoping to make a difference fighting for climate justice, against ecoside and to show the world that an alternative way of living can be possible.

This story stands symbolic for thoses 212 land- and environmental-activists who have lost their lives in 2020 alone. And recognizes their vulnerability. Thus it is vital these activists remain anonymous and their faces are covered by masks. It was a long process of persuasion and gaining each other’s trust, comfort and solidarity to produce this story. By trading their armor for fashionable costumes they could present their positions as creative souls and custodians of an endangered ecosystem, becoming more human and showing the sensitive side of humans trying to live in co-existence with creation.

One essential part next to the masks was the styling: All CLOTHES and costumes in this story are either BORROWED, DONATED, FOUND or are rare ARTISANAL PIECES by college graduates or HANDCRAFTED ONE-OFF artistic and SUSTAINABLY manufactured items by very small regeneratively thinking brands or lend by a craft museum.

This story was shot as a 30 pages spread and a documentary investigative written piece into the remains of Hambach Forest and published in March 2021 in
The Lissome Magazine (Climate.Fashion.Vision)
Issue 02 - Rewilding

further sources: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/29/record-212-land-and-environment-activists-killed-last-year?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Photographed, imagined and planned by
Anna Rosa Krau
written and researched by Dorte de Jesus
Styled by Kamilla Richter
and artistically supported with Make-up by Hauke Krause.