TITLE: The murdered

I have a deep love for nature and forests.
For me, trees are living beings, almost like humans, who can communicate with each other according to the latest scientific research.
But our forests are in great distress worldwide. On the one hand due to dramatic climatic changes, the dryness, on the other hand due to the wilful desecration of forests by short-sighted people.
During many hikes in the forests of Europe last years, I realised the beauty and by the same time the suffering of the trees in a way I had never experienced before.

In my perception, the destruction of the forests is war against the trees and nature, therefore, I refer to the trees in my work as "murdered".
Even if the newly planted young trees, which are protected from animals by white plastic, are more reminiscent of a military cemetery, it does give hope that new trees are being planted at all.

With the benefit of hindsight, I realize that this project is also a personal confrontation with death in general, as the series was created the year after the death of my beloved grandfather.

AUTHOR: Lennard Grohn (Germany)

Lennard Grohn is a German photographic artist based in Frankfurt am Main.

He studied photography at the University of Fine Arts in Mainz, where his approach to light, drawing and composition was shaped. Working primarily in black and white, he develops long-term series that explore memory, intimacy and quiet transformation through a reduced, minimalist visual language.
His work moves between presence and absence, silence and emotional intensity, ranging from intimate portraits to poetic landscapes.

Alongside photography, he has a background in music as a drummer and percussionist, which informs his sense of rhythm and restraint.