This article investigates the landscape as a technological and cultural construct shaped by perspectival devices and consolidated through photography. Far from being neutral, photography has served as an ideological tool, mediating human-environmental relations, while also contributing to their exploitation. Drawing on fieldwork and collaborations with geologists, the author reflects on processes such as erosion, extractivism and overtourism. His artistic practice employs photography not as representation but as a speculative, performative act that questions perception, memory, and ecological transformation. Case studies – ranging from tourism in the Dolomites to underground blasting – highlight the paradoxical coexistence of destruction and regeneration. The Alps emerge as both a site of crisis and a laboratory of adaptation, where human and non-human perspectives intersect. This study advocates for a conceptual shift from an anthropocentric notion of landscape to an ecocentric understanding of environment as a relational system, where observing is reframed as active participation in the transformation of reality.
