The photobook explores the constructed relationship between photography and nature through a meticulous visual approach that merges reality with digital manipulation. Ruud Van Empel’s work challenges traditional representations by assembling idealized images that evoke artificial yet convincing natural scenes.

Making Nature presents a contemplative examination of how photographic images can fabricate an untarnished vision of the natural world. The eighty-page volume highlights the tension between authenticity and artifice, provoking reflection on photographic truth in contemporary imagery.