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 by listening intently to the sounds of the forest.

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 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.

In this project, Kaye Savage offers a new opportunity to exist to Bloodroot plants destroyed by Hurricane Helene. After intended long-term observation sites became inaccessible, she placed previously made photographs of the plant in new environments. The plant Bodies photographed exist now only in our imagination and archives.

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.

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.