Nature is often used as background for portraiture, providing pleasant settings for its subjects. Landscape photography exists due to the beautiful scenery nature supplies. Despite nature’s frequent appearance in photography, it is rarely displayed and appreciated at an intimate level. The intricacy at this level is lost in the background and the minute detail overlooked, as significance is generally placed on other subjects. Everything in the natural world is connected, meaning each component is just as important as the next, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant.
The nature of my work is to expose the quiet complexity and beauty of the generally unnoticed elements of the environment on a personal scale. In a sense, I am taking close-up portraits of certain aspects of nature, challenging the definition of portraiture by placing importance on natural elements rather than human ones. By doing this, I hope viewers will consider and value the subtle detail of nature in photography and in their surroundings in general.
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