Annette Kelm Shetland Ponies, Knokke Heist, 2013
The image depicts seven ponies in a coastal saltmeadow. The title suggests that the photo was taken in Knokke Heist, a seaside resort on the Belgian coast. Better known for her studio works, which thrive on the tension between seeming at the same time spontaneous and highly composed, Kelm’s motifs include images of landscapes that have a similar quality: the scene of ponies in the landscape has an unstaged, pastoral quality, yet the surroundings may not be the natural habitat of these animals.