The work of the Dutch artist Martin Effert presents us with landscape images in an immediate and direct way. Within his photographic works, we are presented with images that are clearly landscapes: pieces of land largely occupied by vegetation.

Martin Effert doesn't construct his discourse through attempting to find a new craft but uses an established one, the craft of photography. Instead his practice of creating unique images that demand consideration is based in the exploitation of this established craft and the careful selection of landscapes to show.

He selects tracts of land that are immediately identifiable as familiar urban or interurban tracts of land, many of which have a distinctively Dutch flavour to them: disheveled nature park, undeveloped urban 'wastelands' in the process of partial reversion to a vegetated state, a drainage ditch below a road, plant-strewn patches between highway pylons. There are few images that do not show, or somehow suggest, a human geography. Whether this is an intentional device or merely reflective of the environment in which he lives and works is uncertain.