Between Horizons

“If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.” –Wendell Berry Photography has always played a major role in western cultures understanding of landscape as a physical, psychological, cultural, and geological frontier. With this body of work I am concerned with landscape as an active and participatory concept that is constantly being reshaped and challenged by human innovation and ideas. It acknowledges that the environment is dynamic and constantly changing, retaining its ability to reconstruct itself. The desert holds the weight of centuries of idealization and reverence while succumbing to the very real influences of human engagement. The images elegantly hint at environmental concerns, while also drawing inspiration from the past using historical photographs as reference points. With my images I find myself within the long continued dialog between photographers and landscape, where the land is man’s protagonist, his hero, and his adversary.