Tavy

East Madagascar Below the colourful surface of an exotic place. This series shows a personal feeling while being at remote areas of east Madagascar, where villagers struggling to survive daily in and around the protected primary forests were „Tavy“ illegal burning is still going on. Andasibe is known as point of departure to trips into the protected forest area. I met some members of the „Assosiation des guide d’Andasibe“, a local organisation of guides, earning a small income, while guiding tourist through the forest. Women make beautiful handicrafts from which they sell at the park entrance. I photographed daily life of those villagers involved in small projects of this Assosiation. Malgasch culture it’s all about there ancestors, they do have great importance, they are powerful and almost the one rocking the boat. Custums like the „Tavy“ for agricultural production, are deeply embedded in their culture. Corruption, poverty and the lack of education are reasons why they stick to the traditions of their ancestors, also the harm to the nature is obvious. One of the most amazing forests with a unic endemic biodiversity, is in serious danger.

orn and raised in Liechtenstein. trained as a restorer of archaeological heritage and worked in this profession for ten years. Has been involved in photography since her early youth. In 1999, after two years as an assistant to an architectural photographer in Vienna, I opened my own studio for architectural photography. I have always worked freelance in the field of art. To this day, I mainly use analogue large and medium format cameras.