Since 2012 the Hambach Forest is occupied by climate activists, who protect the forest from clearing by living in treehouses, that are build upto 28 meters high. Next to the Hambach Forest is a big browncoal open mine, run by RWE corp., that is digging away the forest, but now had to stop due to the occupation and a judgement to stop the clearing.
For some, the activists are like forest spirits, coming out and disappearing behind the bushes. Clandestine, sometimes inviosible. Like the animals, that live in the forest. With a thermal camera I ve photographed their activities somewhere sometime. The pictures look like coming out of a surveillance camera, as it it also used by the police to observe the activists and control their hidden movements.