(^01) THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
Two climbers look down into the Benbow
crater, Vanuatu, the red volcanic fumes
blocking out the night sky
Lens Canon EF 11-24mm f/4L USM at 20mm
Exposure 20 secs, f/7.1, ISO800
T’S LATE September when
I phone Ulla Lohmann and
when she describes her
schedule for the next two
months I feel incredibly
lucky to be speaking to
her. Ulla has just returned
from an assignment to
Indonesia and Vanuatu,
and my suggestion that she will
be able to enjoy home-life for a
couple of weeks, is met with a
laugh: “This year I have not been
home for weeks!” she exclaims.
“I’m home tomorrow and then I’m off
again to a photo festival in France. Then I
go to Italy to teach a workshop and then
to Sweden and the Netherlands for talks,
and in the middle of November I go back
to Vanuatu. I’m home for six days
altogether. At home, I wash my stuff,
repack and then I’m off again.”
Her talks feature her spectacular
images of volcanoes, which have been an
obsession since childhood. In 2014, Ulla
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crater of a volcano in Vanuatu to get as
close as possible to the bubbling cauldron
of the lava lake. Her husband Basti
Hofman, an Alpine mountaineer, shares
her obsession and proposed to her on a
Nothing gets Ulla
Lohmann more
excited than the idea
of shooting bubbling
lava lakes inside the
volcanoes of Indonesia.
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how this all started
and why Ulla believes
it’s not as risky as
taking the subway...
ULLA LOHMANN
The Canon Magazine 65
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