AMSTERDAM.- Photographers Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk and Ann Pettersson are fascinated by nature landscapes. It seems however that the search for nature plays a more important role than the nature itself. With archetypal nature as their source of inspiration or point of departure, they test the limits of authentic and artificial nature photography, not sidestepping a brush with abstraction. In her latest work, Ann Petterson quickly lets go of reality in her nature images, mixing and transforming these into a hybrid depiction. she manipulates her photos, letting images overlap, or applies technical adjustments, playing with camera angles and choices of lighting. Fascinated by abstraction, she searches for a new dimension within the image. This could be a mood, feeling or primal force. The image therefore assumes a somewhat mythical charge, perhaps even one of estrangement. ‘Ann Pettersson uses photography to construct a fictional reality. She deconstructs the