subterranea/superterranea

 I photograph wild caves by painting light with dozens of exposures into a single image composed with an ambiguous sense of scale, so these chambers can be perceived simultaneously as an intimate architectural space or the underground equivalent of Ansel Adams’s grand Yosemite vistas.   My subterranea scenes since 2019 have a geographically paired superterranea image taken above the mountain from a bird’s eye view with a drone-mounted camera, suggesting that if you get far enough away in one direction or another, it’s still possible to depict a pristine world to remind us of what we need to save.