”At night, under the sharp eye of two photographers, winter sports pistes suddenly transcend into something mysterious and distant, illuminated only by the lights of a ratrak.” La Côte
”We were stunned by the surprising beauty of a frozen landscape, transformed by the headlights in a surreal scene: the curtain raiser to the unknown.” La Liberté
”The pictures of Pascal Greco & Gabriel Mauron are often challenging, some are almost disturbing.”” Le Temps
”A hint of snowy fear such as ’Shining’. A wonderful sense of nocturnal wonderment like that in ‘Close encounters of the third kind’... We must turn to theater references to best describe in words the emotion aroused by Ratrak.”Edelweiss
”A unique photographic project which has lead to an impressive collection of work.” Le Nouvelliste
”It is somewhere between a horror film and an onslaught of tanks, an exclusive and a lunar exploration.” Profil
”Photographed like a science fiction robot in complete darkness, Ratrak makes us see the snowy mountain landscape in another way.” Réponses Photo
The power of the mountain and of machine combine in a night-time setting to reveal a unique image. On the slopes of various swiss ski resorts, where through out the day buildings and spaces weave themselves into the fabric of familiar winter sport environments, a series of unknown landscapes form once night falls - mysterious visions that arise in the beam of a ratrak’s headlights - our view of these locations given a new breath of life through this fascinating effect. Two complementary approaches have allowed us to achieve these photographs. The first is to stage the ratrak in the background, in order to show the elements of the landscape and their context. In the second, the machine is present in the images but only through its beam of light.
