Crocodile - 95x35cm - Limited Edition 1 of 3 (plus artist proof) Photograph

Archival Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta (Glossy), Unframed, Signed Limited Edition Print, Numbered Certificate of Authenticity, Edition limited to 3 (plus 2 artist prints). It was somewhat eerie walking along this path. A fire had passed through not so long ago, leaving a trail of destruction through this pristine forest, the smell of burning still lingering in the air. Fallen trees, twisted branches and scorched earth in beautiful configurations of decay. Some of these looked like they had been arranged just for me to find them. Some of them had to be prized from the general blackness of a particular place. All of them showing the red glow of fire in disguise. Ultimately there is a line where the fire all stopped, one side of the forest surviving and the other side gone. Laguna Azul explores the brittleness of our relationship with our environment. Laguna Azul is a lake in the Torres del Paine national park in Patagonia, Southern Chile. In the last 30 years, the area has suffered three large scale fires devastating the native Lenga forest; a Lenga tree takes 200 years to grow to maturity. All three fires were started by accident by hikers, tourists to the area that the local economy depends on. The photographs capture the aftermath of the 2005 fire, close-up and distant landscape photography of the burnt out forest, having ended up in often graceful poses of decay. These photographs are combined with images of the tourist gateway to the park, Puerto Natales, showing a quiet, calm world seemingly a world away from the devastation, although it is ultimately its source.

Photography:Black & White on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:3

Size:37.4 W x 13.8 H x 0 D in

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