When we bought the book Anchor in the Landscape, it made us look again at the photographs we had taken over the years in Greece and Italy. Among them were many images of olive trees. We have always loved these trees. Their trunks, their shapes, their age, and their presence give them so much character. To us, every olive tree seems to carry its own story.

After going through our photos, we made a selection of about 35 photographs. Together they form a small series: a personal tribute to olive trees, photographed in landscapes that have become meaningful to us over time.

The story of the olive trees in Palestine, as told through the work of Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez, adds another dimension to our own photographs. It reminds us that olive trees are not only beautiful forms in the landscape, but also witnesses of history, memory, belonging, and loss.

With this series, we would like to share the trees that caught our attention: trees that stood quietly beside roads, in fields, near villages, or in dry and stony landscapes. We do not know their full stories, but we feel that each of them has one.

In my BLOG post Photography books you can read more about the Anchor in the landscape (click) by Adam Broomberg & Rafael Gonzales. In our BLOG post Mytilini – On the olive mountain (click) you can read more about harvesting the olives from our own experience.