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Aindreas Scholz is a German-Irish photographer, lecturer and PhD researcher based in London, working with cameraless and ecological photographic processes. His climate-adapted methods bring sunlight, water, plant matter, soils and photographic chemistry into direct contact with the photographic surface, allowing acidic rainwater, pollution-affected seawater, salinity, minerals, vulnerable plant specimens and disturbed soils to participate materially in the making of the image. His work considers photography not only as a means of representing environmental change, but as a material system entangled with water, chemistry, extraction, disposal and waste.
Scholz’s work has received international recognition, including First Prize in the Conceptual category of the 1839 Awards, the Denis Roussel Award, and Gold in Zines and Photo Books at the Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards 2026. His practice has been supported by Arts Council England, the Paul Mellon Centre, the Centre for British Photography, and the Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund. Recent projects and exhibitions include The Ecological Wetroom at Studio1.1, London, Photoworks Festival at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, and research and fieldwork with Artica Svalbard. He is represented by Curatorial Gallery and In-Dependance, and his work is held in public and institutional collections including the Office of Public Works, Ireland, and NHS Foundation Trust collections in the UK.
Alongside his studio practice, Scholz lectures and leads socially-engaged workshops in ecological, experimental and historical photographic processes. His ongoing PhD at Technological University Dublin develops The Ecological Wetroom, exploring how analogue photography might be materially reworked through water, chemistry, filtration, living systems and ecological responsibility. Rather than treating climate change solely as a subject to photograph, his practice asks how photography itself might become a more responsive and accountable ecological process.