Vilde Rolfsen is a fine art photographer based in Oslo Norway. In her work ‘plastic bag landscapes’ Rolfsen scrunches plastic bags and photographs the inside to create abstract landscapes whilst addressing the effects of plastic on the land and oceans.

Vilde Rolfsen first started noticing the impact of plastic on the environment when living in London and the abundance of plastic bags and litter in the parks and city. The whimsical Plastic bag landscapes were a response to this. “I didn’t want to do something that was too in-your-face, because I think that puts people off.” – the compositions are inspired by her home country of Norway and its mountains, recreating the natural with the man made.

Rolfsen uses unatural pastel colours in her work attributing to the artificial feel whilst still be pleasing to look at. The shapes and texture created by the bags are natural looking almost like glaciers or mountains which contradicts the material they are mad with – Rolfsen modeled the bags after the Norwegian mountains. She uses vignette depth of field to focus the centre and have the edges unfocused and uses low iso to have sharp images.