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.

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...

Beech Canopy · Beigua UNESCO Global Geopark, Liguria, Italy · © Stefano Balma

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...

Unnamed Crater · Vatnajökull Region, Iceland · © Kévin Pagès

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...

Midnight Hunter · Mohéli, Comoros · © Pavlos Evangelidis / wantok.photos

Eyes in the Deep

On a night dive off Mohéli in the Comoros archipelago, Pavlos Evangelidis descended into water where human vision becomes almost useless. His light found a squid suspended in the dark, body semi-transparent, chromatophores scattered across the mantle like a map of something internal, a teal stripe running its length...

Above the Cloudline

From Hardman Ridge on Guanyin Mountain, I watched the ultra-low advection fog arrive with the force of a weather event. It was not drifting, but surging, covering Taipei Port completely and pushing inland along the Tamsui River in waves...

When Light Finds Its Own Way Out

There is a moment, standing inside the ALHERD installation at Super Playground, Superstudio, when the category of lamp stops being useful. The objects range from table scale to columns that reach well above head height, and a pendant suspended horizontally from a red cable overhead...