After Helene is a document of the aftermath of the record flooding due to Hurricane Helene in Asheville’s River Arts District. Photographs were taken in the months after the storm during the initial cleanup phase of the debris.

She asked me to be her keeper, features photographs that accompany Megan Driving Hawks' poem at the Summer Solstice. This kindred collection of images and words transcends time and reminds us of the power of photography to stir deep and even ancient memories.

Julia Nagai found herself stepping into a world of portals, connecting the local to the global. In this portfolio, she invites us into an enchanting journey through the greenhouse doors.

Season of Earth offers us a glimpse into the ordinary yet beautiful moments of life being made and unmade. At the heart of this work is a quiet sensitivity to life’s shifting and changing rhythms.

Photographed at night in the forests of western North Carolina, April McNiff moved—sometimes danced—across the landscape, allowing gestures of fire to unfold within darkness.

Anna Rotty responds to things bound, in space and in long, drawn-out time…Rock, sediment, earth, aridification of small plots of property in her neighborhood.

Poet, contemplative photographer, and visual artist Kate Kennington Steer explores the element of water in this mixed-media video featuring spoken-word poetry and imagery.

Poet, contemplative photographer, and visual artist Kate Kennington Steer explores the element of fire in this mixed-media video featuring spoken-word poetry and imagery.

Poet, contemplative photographer, and visual artist Kate Kennington Steer explores the element of air in this mixed-media video featuring spoken-word poetry and imagery.

Ice is the archivist of the world, holding centuries in its translucent layers. Each trapped bubble is a whisper of ancient winds, a chronicle of forgotten seasons—snowfall, ash, storms, and sunlight pressed into memory.

Casey Visco’s photographic observations were made during daily walks in the riverfront parks and trails around Asheville, North Carolina. Visco’s work reminds us that our ordinary earthbound moments can be full of beauty and quiet meaning.

In Light Passed Between Us, Frances Bukovsky explores how a relationship to place can shape a partnership. In this tender imagery fire is expressed through both light and love.

Julia Nagai’s dreamy exploration explores how water flows from humans to their co-creations with nature, and connects them to what may lie beyond the physical realm of our Earth.  

Phil Lewenthal reimagines the interplay of the elements on California’s north coast—embracing both meditative landscapes and chaotic urban environments.

Brenda Spielmann’s poetic book explores the interplay between nature, mythology, and our relationship with water. You are invited to step into the bones of an ancient world where the landscape is the storyteller, and myth and reality blur.

For George Lottermoster, images and titles feel as though they appear out of Thin Air, as he finds himself “aging out of aliveness”.

Alchemy explores elemental fire as a powerful symbol of transformation, representing both renewal and destruction. In Alli’s work, fire symbolizes purification, spiritual connection, passion, and even danger. Everything fire touches is transformed.

"When the Trees Sing" is an exploration and imaginative journey of what Barbara Dombach envisions the forest is saying to her.

“I was a curious child and began piano lessons at a young age, but music did not become my passion. All I wanted to do was be outdoors and in the woodland with my grandfather and father. They harvested the dead trees for firewood. When all the cutting went silent, I would listen to the sound of the movements of tree leaves curling and limbs as they stretched and rubbed one another. The sounds were like a song, like an unfinished composition filled with scattered whole, quarter, and half notes in different octaves.”

Kate Kennington Seer shares this meditation on how chronic illness mediates her contact with a single place, often dictating how - the means and the form - she makes a photograph, until, on some days it becomes the subject of photographic enquiry no matter what the situation.  This portfolio is an attempt to render some of this visible.

In this portfolio, Yvonne asks if a place holds memory, if it remembers. These images are made at the Topography of Terror Site in Berlin, an exhibition that addresses the horrors of the Nazi regime. Topography studies land forms and features, it traces the surface. The visitor has an annotated map to follow. When the body reacts by changing posture and step, and the eyes scrutinize every detail, is it simply the brain imagining, creating composites? - Would there be a change if one didn’t have a map?