Fort Hermann stands above the Koritnica gorge near Bovec in north-western Slovenia, embedded in the steep, wooded slopes of Mount Rombon. Built by the Austro-Hungarian Empire between 1897 and 1900 as support for nearby Kluže Fortress, it guarded the strategically vital route towards the Predil Pass. Today, it survives as a fractured shell of concrete, stone, tunnels and rusting metal—slowly being overtaken by the forest around it.

The fort was heavily damaged by Italian artillery during the Isonzo Front in the First World War. Walking through its remains, the scale of that destruction is difficult to separate from the landscape: collapsed rooms open directly onto the mountains, defensive walls have become ledges for moss and trees, and the silence feels almost unnatural. It is a place where military architecture and nature no longer sit in opposition, but have become inseparable.

These photographs were made on Rollei Infrared 400 with the Fujifilm GW690II. Infrared turns the vegetation surrounding Fort Hermann pale and luminous, while the surviving concrete deepens into near-black. The resulting images move the site slightly away from straightforward documentation: the fort becomes a ghostly structure suspended between history, ruin and the living landscape reclaiming it.