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?

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.

Several years ago, Ann Villano became obsessed with taking photos of decaying edifices: barns, old houses, falling stone walls. When she considered images for "Between Bodies," she focused instead on images where she saw a transference of energy between two entities. In these photos, trees or plants are giving, taking, and supporting. They stand guard over a cemetery, beam energy onto a decaying house, or hold up decaying walls. In some cases, one cannot be sure where one material starts and the other ends. 

In this ongoing series, Barron explores the relationship between the human body and the landscape he walks everyday by listening to and responding to the landscape rather than dominating it. By molding his body into the terrain, he creates a visual dialogue between the human and natural worlds, emphasizing vulnerability, coexistence, and interconnectedness.

In this tender portfolio, Kaoly Gutierrez relates to other bodies—both literal and metaphorical—by exploring how personal experiences, emotions, and histories shape her interactions with others. For Kaoly, the “bodies” in question aren’t just physical, but represent the relational dynamics and energies between people: the hidden thoughts, judgments, desires, and unspoken histories that linger in our connections.

When Alli Harper began swimming during the lockdown, it changed her connection to the earth. For the first time, she keenly observed the weather patterns moving over the sky, wondering at the migratory birds in the air, the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun, the tug of the ocean's currents, and the abundant life beneath the water. Suddenly, Alli’s world expanded into something so much bigger, more important, and precious.