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. Alli Harper's luminous collection of images reminds us that in the evolving story of the Earth, even the most enduring forms are transient.

Casey Visco’s collection of 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 relationship to place can shape partnership, and uses tender imagery to highlight the intentionality within their long-distance relationship to nurture and care for both place and person. Fire is expressed through both light and love in this intimate portfolio.

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.  Autumnal rituals performed under a cloudy moon in a Tokyo garden connect city dwellers with the changing seasons and bring a moment of stillness to their souls.

For the last several years, Phil Lewenthal concentrated on a project photographing the interplay of the elements on California’s north coast. In recent months, a spontaneous and even chaotic urban project has emerged (perhaps not coincidentally) as he engaged with the Elemental practice groups.

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

When suggested, the title, Thin Air, seemed to appear out of thin air. It had not occurred to me. I had to look it up—and found, to my sheer delight, “disappear / vanish into thin air / idiom: to appear or disappear completely in a way that is mysterious.” So. Perfect. For where I’m at as eye express and document my aging out of aliveness in this way, with these selected images.

Alli Harper’s ongoing project Alchemy explores elemental fire as a powerful symbol of transformation, representing both renewal and destruction. The cycle of life is a constant kindling of sparks and the dying of embers. In Alli’s work, fire symbolizes purification, spiritual connection, and is a symbol of passion and danger. Everything it 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?

Julie Williams Dixon made these image one afternoon as she waded in an ancient river, a body of water. Here, she sunned her body on ancient stones and pondered the transience of her physical body in juxtaposition to ancient surroundings. Playing with scale and abstraction, she explored the space between transience and eternity.

In This Place is an ongoing project that celebrates the intimate and familiar places near Paul Wanta’s home in Wendell, Massachusetts. As an experienced wildlife tracker, Paul is especially attuned to capturing subtle changes and nuances within the specific parameters of the places he thoughtfully wanders.

During the height of the COVID-19 lockdowns, many local independent businesses had to close their doors. Walking through the empty streets, Shawn saw shops, cafés, and gathering places—once alive with people—now closed and silent. These spaces became separated from us by panes of glass, a barrier between us and the world we knew, between us and the spaces we inhabit - Separated by an invisible force, a virus, that is passed between us, between bodies.

Kaye Savage is investigating environmental change, especially climate change, through the lens of particular plants. After the destruction of some of her intended long-term observation sites for Bloodroot resulting from Hurricane Helene, she placed some earlier photographs in new environments. The Bodies of this plant that she had been photographing are no longer accessible, and in some locations completely destroyed. Kaye is offering them a new opportunity to exist in a different context by placing these photographs in locations where this plant might have a chance to thrive, if it were present; instead they exist now only in our imagination and our records.

In this portfolio, Gretchen LeMaistre returns to the same sites along the Swannanoa River in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in an attempt to share the visceral reaction she has experienced in this place. While the photographs convey only a fraction of experience, she hopes they can function as tokens for conversation, connection and witness with one another and with the world at large.

Pregnancy is a direct embodiment of the question — where does one body end and another begin? In this portfolio, Eliza Bell embarks on a deep exploration of the known and unknown alongside the pregnant people she photographs.