Ghosts of the River is an ongoing labor and ritual of bearing witness to the pain of a vanishing river. Over three summer seasons, with dust billowing through my hair and mud caked to my boots, my heart carried my body and my camera into the cracking and evaporating spine of a once “Grande” River.

Still Life is an ongoing meditation on observation as a form of knowing. Walking is how I keep time with the world. I collect what I find at the edges of my sight, frequently led there by my dog's inquisitive snout. Seedpods, bark, flowers, and nests in various states of decay and transformation make their way back with me, where the exploration continues on an old flatbed scanner.

In this portfolio, George Lottermoser dedicated undistracted attention to Water, contemplating the water filled womb and the various forms of Water’s Many Essences.

An Elemental Life is a year-long photographic practice that explores the body’s connection to air, fire, water, and earth. Tray Warren’s images call the body to movement and invite an intimate dialogue with animate elemental beings.

Thirty-five years ago, Kaye Savage and a group of friends sat on a front porch with a bucket of plaster, a jar of vaseline, and a pair of soda straws to cast their faces. Last autumn, Kaye began taking her mask for walks in natural spaces she loved the most, capturing moods and a feeling of home

In this series, John Ryan Brubaker observes the microclimatic shifts atop the ridge where he lives to engage with the rainforest nature of the place. John used 19th-century Van Dyke and Cyanotype photographic processes to record water and sunlight.

John Ryan Brubaker’s small cyanotypes were made with the help of ocean waves, on the shore of a lagoon, beside the Cretan Sea, behind a site of industrial abandon on the North shore of the city of Iraklio.

Jeffrey DeCristofaro’s images look both behind and forward, capturing the elegance and magic of past moments while hinting - and holding on to - the promise of a better future, all while still in the grasp of time, space, and all surrounding elements that compose and shape our lives and destinies.

For over 10 years, Yvonne Dalschen has been visiting, tracing the indentations and fieldstones for the Africans in bondage on one side of the road, and the groomed headstones of the enslavers on the other—wondering at the unseen hands paying respect, moving and disappearing.

Dani Fresh explores neighboring, stewardship, and reciprocity in The Peach Tree. In this sequence, Dani goes out into the rare sunlight winter days of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as a way to feed her during the long wintering of Pennsylvania winters.

Gwen Walstrand’s fictional and fragmented images, made from camera-less chemigrams and collaged snippets from her own photographs, attempt to slice through history, space, galaxies, and reconfigure our understanding of our position in the world as both precarious and hopeful.

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.