Here, the body becomes wild again. Otherlands lets the figure vanish into light, into stone, into the myth of nature.
In Otherlands, the nude body dissolves into the landscape—not as an intruder, but as kin. These photographs are not about nudity in nature, but about the body as nature: embedded, weathered, unresisting.
Burak Bulut Yildirim has photographed countless models in forests, fields, lakes, and hillsides across Europe, often at the edges of seasons, light, and solitude. The result is not pastoral, but primal. The body curls like root systems, stretches like windblown grass, collapses like eroded stone. These aren’t idyllic nudes in golden-hour meadows. They are bodies that accept the mud, the rocks, the insects. There’s a quiet surrender in every pose. The reference points stretch from Edward Weston’s sand dunes and torsos, to Ana Mendieta’s earth-body rituals, to the body-in-landscape abstractions of Paul Caponigro. The titles and locations fade in importance—what remains is elemental contact.
Here, the body is not eroticized or central. It is equal to the stone, the tree, the breeze. The photograph becomes a trace of coexistence. For collectors, Otherlands is a gesture toward timelessness. These limited edition prints offer something beyond the frame: the possibility of rewilding the self, of belonging not to culture, but to earth.
https://burakbulut.org/otherlands/
