After my mum and dad died, I received a box of slides. When I looked at them it was immediately obvious that my mum had taken these. This might not mean a lot to most people, but my mum was disabled after I was under 4 years old and she had taken these slides of my in the woods. Strangely enough she had taken some of them of me on the roots of trees that I had photographed as well. I put all the slides in order and started following her footsteps through these slides, estimating where she might have gone and this became a project that has this strange coincidence of photographing rooted trees whilst tracing her footsteps and my roots. I hiked enormous distances, not always knowing precisely where she might have been, but sometimes the slide before and the one after provided me with clues. I am still working on this and I enjoy this enormously. Just knowing that these trees are witnesses of my mum walking by with me as a 2 year old is quite special. This is how this image came about on one of my long walks to trace her footsteps. These wonderful trees with their roots exposed on a loam clay slope.
Ellen Borggreve is a landscape photographer and author of Woodscapes and Praxisbuch Wälder fotografieren, among others. She was born and raised in the woods of the Veluwe where her love for trees originated. Besides forests she also likes to photograph Dutch coastal scenes.
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