Encounters

A space dedicated to the quiet, unhurried experience of truly looking at something: the patience it takes, the unexpected connection that follows, the way a work of art can open a world that usually unfolds beyond our awareness.

Heterotrichia versicolor · Eldorado National Forest, Sierra Nevada, California, USA · © Timothy Boomer

So Much Beauty in So Little Space

When a friend introduced me to the fascinating world of slime molds, I was instantly captivated. I wanted to photograph as many species as I could. During the rainy season, they are not difficult to find in local woodlands or even my own backyard. But where I live in California's East Bay, the rains never last long...

Chilean Flamingos · Puerto Natales, Patagonia, Chile · © Carolina Aravena Costa

The Photograph I Never Brought Home

Ten years ago, I traveled to Patagonia for the first time, and there is one scene I still cannot shake. It was April 13, 2016. The sky had turned red at dawn, and I spent the day happily taking photographs. By evening, my camera had ended up in the Paine River. I cried, yes, but not because of the camera. I cried for the...

Forest Pool · Olympic National Park, Washington, USA · © Adelina Gowdy

What Returns: The Cycle of Life

Long before roads were cut through the landscape and rivers appeared on maps, the forests of the Olympic Peninsula were already alive. For the Coast Salish, Klallam, and Quinault peoples, forest, river, and wildlife have never existed as separate realms...

Kangaroo Tail · Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre, South Australia, Australia · © Nilmini De Silva Photography

Into the Wild

I came to photography quite by accident. In 2010 I took a year's sabbatical to travel and volunteer solo around the world. A conservation and photography project in South Africa was the catalyst that woke up the artist in me. I returned home with a camera and a completely different way of seeing...

Beigua Natural Park, Studies on a Liminal Condition

The park sits in the heart of Liguria, suspended between the sea and the Alps. It is a place where an ancient ocean floor has become mountain, and where beech forests grow over ophiolite rock that was once the crust of a vanished sea. It is a landscape of deep transformation, though this transformation is so slow...

Through One Eye

The dust arrived without warning. Three days before Kévin Pagès would reach the crater, he and three friends were crossing Mælifellsandur, a vast plain of black volcanic sand in Iceland's central highlands, so stripped of colour it has often been compared to another planet. The storm that caught them there was total...