Relationship to Nature

What is your relationship to nature? A question I keep circling back to as I recently returned to reading Maya Lin’s beautiful and deeply thoughtful book, Boundaries. I was struck by a passage exploring the relationships between photography and technology and the natural world:

“Photographic images, which can freeze and capture naturally occurring phenomena, as well as aerial photographs, satellite images, and microscopic and stop-camera images have given us, in this century, a new way of seeing our world…

Our view of the landscape and our relationship to it has been changed significantly by our ability to view the planet from these new vantage points.

What is our relationship to nature?”

– Maya Lin

“What is our relationship to nature?” A timeless question with answers that have changed radically in the ensuing 24 years since the book’s publication in 2000, when Lin had no idea of the impact cellphone cameras and cheap digital cameras would play in our engagement with the natural world. This photograph, April 2nd, 2024 is from the Lake Series, an edition of fine art photographs.

See all of the photographs from the last nine years of the Lake Series here or follow along as I explore this and other projects on my instagram account.