Christine Nachmann was born near Munich in the south of Germany in 1969. After school, she successfully completed a 3-year apprenticeship to train as a professional photographer. Since then, she has worked in a wide variety of fields within photography, exploring diverse areas such as portrait, fashion, theatre, film and advertising, but her passion lies with landscape and nature as her favorite subjects. By printing her work virtually life size, Nachmann captures the true beauty from the Western Cape.

An assignment brought her to South Africa, where she reluctantly fell in love with the apartheid-torn country and decided to move there. Using photography as a medium to explore landscape and the natural environment, her search for a more authentic visual language led her to start practicing meditation. Since 1995 Nachmann has been a practitioner of Zen Buddhism, a process that has influenced and shaped her photographic vision considerably.” Meditation teaches me awareness, it teaches me to really see what is in front of me, rather than my ideas and concepts of what I think I see. Zen helps me to look at the world with fresh eyes.”