Finck

The idea behind the project

Ever since I started my work as a photographer and filmmaker, I wanted to combine my passion of photography with causes that are worth supporting. I wanted to create projects that are not only artistically valuable, but address socio-environmental challenges through the lens of the camera, giving my audience and myself the chance to support a good cause. I was planning my trip to South America with this idea in mind. I see this work as the beginning of a series that I want to develop which will build on projects I encounter during my travels. My goal is to find ventures that are contributing to a world in which humans and nature can coexist and benefit from each other. 

The first project takes place in the region of Patagonia. The short films will introduce you to the Four Seasons Garden lead by Francisco Vio and Javier, and the National Park Patagonia, where the Tompkins Foundation is doing extraordinary work. If you want to support them in their endavours, you can donate directly through one of the buttons below.

You can also support the projects by purchasing one of my landscape pictures taken over the course of the last year. Just check out my gallery by clicking the donation button at the end of this page. All the profits will go directly and solely towards the projects! 

I highly appreciate any small support you can give. Having spend my time accompanying and documenting both ventures and the people involved in it, I can confidently say that they are worth your support.

Madlitz, a series

Happy to announce the soon to be launched mini series I have been working on for a while. It’s going to be 3 episodes about a place called Madlitz, which is very special to me. My grandfather grew up there as a kid and always told us stories about its beauty and history. Every episode deals with a different aspect of it and tells a story.

EMANUEL FINCKENSTEIN

My fascination for photography and film comes from a passion for our worlds beauty that I have felt since I was a little kid. I always wanted to do something that might make a change in this world to preserve it’s beauty. On a trip to South America I started to take pictures with my first camera and haven't stopped since. For me, film and photography are ways to appreciate the world's beauty. You take time to notice that it’s the little things and details that make a frame complete, as it is with everything in life. With my work I want to encourage to people to take a moment to appreciate the beauty in life rather than letting it pass them by because they don't have time to do so. It's not about having time, it's about making time.