Coffee Shop, Abkhazia (2019)
Jonk is a self-taught freelance photographer whose work focuses on humans and their relationship with nature. His images are taken to raise awareness of the ecological crisis that faces humanity. Fascinated by abandoned places that have been reclaimed by nature, in 2018 he published Naturalia: A Chronicle of Contemporary Ruins. Far from being pessimistic, and at a time when human domination of nature has never been so extreme, his images are designed to awaken our ecological consciousness. Nature is stronger, so whatever happens to humans, nature will always be there, he says.