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Charred black logs and skeletal branches lie across a field of bright yellow-green moss. In the background, a grey road runs along the base of a muted hill.

Photography: Some of the best landscapes around from the brilliant Benjamin Gerull

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Date
12 July 2013

It’s become a bit of an in-joke round these parts that my tastes in photography are limited almost exclusively to picturesque landscapes; rolling hills, windswept trees and roads that lead to nowhere. It’s true, I’m a sucker for all of those things but what’s not to like, particularly when the quality of those rolling hills is as good as in Benjamin Gerull’s images? The German photographer is a master at capturing the great outdoors in all its rugged, bruised majesty. His Zacharo series in particular focusses on a small area of southern Greece – an unkempt area of hillside that’s been ravaged by fire. Benjamin’s sensitivity to the landscape’s subtle hues, punctuated with flashes of lush green vegetation makes for an exceptional series of photographs that you’re sure to appreciate even if you’re not as landscape-obsessed as I appear to be.

Charred, leafless trees stand across a blackened hillside under a pale sky. A patch of bright green grass grows in the foreground, contrasting with the burnt earth.
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Benjamin Gerull: Zacharo

Charred, leafless tree branches twist and curve across a landscape of burnt woodland. Small white wildflowers and green grass grow around the blackened trunks.
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Benjamin Gerull: Zacharo

A dense thicket of bare, greyish trees and tangled branches fills a woodland scene. The ground is covered in a thick layer of golden-brown brush and dry foliage.
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Benjamin Gerull: Zacharo

A fallen, weathered tree trunk lies across a dense bed of bright green ferns. Bare, spindly trees stand in the background under a pale sky.
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Benjamin Gerull: Zacharo

Charred, leafless trees stand across a desolate landscape under a pale sky. A large, blackened trunk lies fallen across a patch of yellow-green grass.
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Benjamin Gerull: Zacharo

Charred, leafless trees and blackened logs litter a field of bright yellow-green grass. In the background, a grey mountain sits under a pale, overcast sky.
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Benjamin Gerull: Zacharo

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James Cartwright

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James started out as an intern in 2011 and came back in summer of 2012 to work online and latterly as Print Editor, before leaving in May 2015.

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