The photographer and scientist Eckart Bartnik, born 1957 in Bonn, lives in Wiesbaden, Germany and worked in biological research. For almost five decades, analog and digital photography are his means of artistic expression. Numerous workshops with renowned photographers such as Bruce Barnbaum, Wolfgang Zurborn, Markus Schaden, Thekla Ehling, Olaf Otto Becker, Ann Mandelbaum, Göran Gnaudschun and Torben Eskerod influenced his visual language. Since the 1980s, his work is shown internationally in group and solo exhibitions and published in daily newspapers, magazines, trade journals and online. Currently, I am captivated by two photographic themes: abstraction, which involves the expressionist transformation of nature, and the reflection of diverse life-worlds with their disruptions, contrasts, and ambiguities. With both themes, I open up a world where the visible and invisible merge. I seek a deep, instinctive connection to nature and our place within it, questioning both. Abstraction and reflection become an area of tension.