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A child in a white top stands by a wooden play frame on a grassy hillside. In the background, another person swings on a wooden swing set against a backdrop of steep, forested mountains.

Kevin Kunstadt documents our bizarre relationship with the Dolomite mountains

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Date
4 October 2012

Songs, books, poems and life-affirming adventures have all been inspired by these previously sub-oceanic lumps of rock that we call mountains. Such magnitude! Such weight! No wonder they continue to inspire us little humans in as many ways as possible. Photographer Kevin Kunstadt has fallen in love with one particular mountain range, the Dolomites in Northern Italy and has proceeded to document the strange relationship humans have with them. It’s a truly magnificent collection of images — highlights including the farmers field on an almost Lord of The Rings style cliff face, to the children casually swinging by a sickeningly deep valley.
Go and immerse yourself in Kevin’s unbridled passion for the mountains, now at the Oresman Gallery in Massachusetts.

Jagged, grey mountain peaks rise sharply against a cloudy sky. In the foreground, a steep, grassy ridge slopes downwards, with a narrow walking path winding across the green slope.
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Kevin Kunstadt: Dolomites

A rusted steel silhouette of a mountain range stands in the foreground of a grassy hillside. Behind it, the actual jagged peaks of the Dolomites rise into a cloudy sky.
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Kevin Kunstadt: Dolomites

Six people hike along a dirt path in a wide valley. Behind them, a massive, rugged mountain range rises sharply above a dense forest of evergreen trees.
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Kevin Kunstadt: Dolomites

A wide view of a town nestled in a valley at dusk. The city lights glow against the deep blue of the evening, with a large, jagged mountain looming in the background.
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Kevin Kunstadt: Dolomites

Two people stand on a grassy mountain ridge beside a tall wooden crucifix. In the distance, a jagged grey peak rises against a pale blue sky.
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Kevin Kunstadt: Dolomites

Four empty ski lift chairs hang from a cable over a green mountain valley. Below, three brown cows graze on a grassy slope against a backdrop of jagged, misty peaks.
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Kevin Kunstadt: Dolomites

Jagged mountain peaks rise through a thick layer of grey cloud. In the foreground, a dense forest of dark green pine and deciduous trees fills the frame.
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Kevin Kunstadt: Dolomites

A person prepares to paraglide from a grassy mountain ridge. Their orange and white wing is caught by the wind, arched high against a backdrop of misty peaks and a distant lake.
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Kevin Kunstadt: Dolomites

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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