Out of anarchist conviction, Axé D. practices refusal — against the familiar images of landscape and progress. His anti-landscapes resist the logic of visibility and exploitation. Dark, defiant, and uncompromising in digital legibility, they emerge as fleeting snapshots, created live directly in the landscape and entirely without artificial intelligence. In this way, they assert a space of quiet protest against the machinic production of images.

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For his work, Axé D. uses a Nikon D7200, most often with a 35mm prime lens, sometimes with other fixed focal lengths. A PHOREX by #Jaworskyj 1000x Super Strong ND filter darkens the image almost completely — the motif in the viewfinder is barely visible. The act of photographing takes place in a state of not-seeing: intuitive, exploratory, guided by trust and experience. ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) is always part of the process — a deliberate motion of the camera during exposure that turns the landscape into a trace of light and time. Axé D. often says he can’t really photograph — and precisely in that lies the freedom of his practice. Processing in SilverEfex remains minimal. Each image thus becomes a moment in both senses — made in darkness, between movement, intuition, and technical refusal.

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Darkness is no reason to fear. It is the place where we escape the machines.

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