Thea Schrack is a photographer with a penchant for the past. Her photographic forays have taken her to English country estates and Czech castles in search of places with a sense of beauty and mystery. Schrack's fascination with architecture and landscapes produces photographic work, which predominantly figures structures and gardens steeped in antiquity.
Schrack's photographs are decidedly complex images involving countless shapes and textures. There is a Gothic sensibility which permeates her work, in the solitude of the Czech castle ruins, elongated shadows, moss laden trees, arrested fountains and open gates Schrack uses the photographic medium to transform, or possibly even...