Welcome to DOTTIKON and NATURE.

Photographer: Heidi Jost-Stucki

Heidi Jost-Stucki, born on March 11, 1961 in a small village called Oberurnen in the 
foothills of the Swiss Alps, detects her flair for creation and art during her handcraft 
education in the late seventies. Shortly thereafter Heidi discovers the beauty of 
nature through the long-lasting friendship with her today's husband Urs, a frenetic 
amateur biologist. In these days Heidi makes the formative experience of the endless 
creativity and deepness of capturing the nature by photography. She is convinced of 
the working philosophy, that in order to capture nature on a picture, you ought to know the 
interrelations in the relevant natural habitat. Numerous courses and personal contacts 
with biologists,herpetologists and ornithologists have developed her skills and helped 
her to experience nature through photography in a much more intensive way. Heidi's 
unconditional concern is to create a real image, which displays the untouched and 
undisturbed reality, a touching picture that lives. This often needs hours of patient 
waiting and observing in order to fusion with and become part of the natural environment.
Until today Heidi Jost-Stucki remains an enthusiastic, passionate and warmhearted 
handcraft teacher in Central Switzerland, where she is an actively engaged member of 
the local community life and government. Over the last two decades she conducted several 
regional and local projects together with youngsters to promote and realize near-natural 
environments, where many of the creatures and subjects captured in her photographs have 
found a new natural habitat.

www.naturimbild.ch

"DOTTIKON and NATURE" Project

DOTTIKON EXCLUSIVE SYNTHESIS is the specialist for hazardous chemical reactions and 
focuses on the exclusive synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients for the 
worldwide leading pharmaceutical companies. The area of its production site, located 
in Switzerland near the village of Dottikon in the canton Aargau, totals to more than 
600'000 square meters. The various production plants on the site are surrounded by 
marginal vegetation, ruderal area, old-growth forest, understory, poor grassland and 
ecologically sustainable farmland. The scope of the "DOTTIKON and NATURE" project 
was to document the beauty and biodiversity of the fauna and flora which coexists 
together with chemical production on company's site in a symbiotic manner. The 
attractions of all four seasons where captured over one year by an extraordinary 
talented, yet undiscovered, photographer. The artist and a small selection of the 
resulted artwork is presented on the following pages, which reflects her typical 
characteristics to combine endless patience in harmony with colour, light, and focus.

www.dottikon.com