“It renews the spirit to immerse oneself in nature, especially those quiet, unspoiled spaces where we can make deep connections that bind us to a landscape. They command our attention, inspire our reverence, and deserve our protection.”
Stephen Conrad
Stephen Conrad is a fine art photographer based in Florida. Focusing his 4×5 wooden field camera on America’s public lands, the west coast of Ireland, and the barrier islands near his home, Conrad has been making landscape photographs for over thirty years.
Recent work – Other Worlds, Big Talbot Island
Approaching his subject with a different perspective, Conrad sees the shoreline of Big Talbot as a journey into another world, where the interaction of land and sea forms grand landscapes in miniature.
From the project Other Worlds…
“The ancient peat shoreline of Big Talbot Island is an ever-changing ribbon of land. Sculpted by tides, strange forms are revealed in the “black rock”, surrounded by the bleached remains of fallen trees. Atop the sandy bluffs, living trees defiantly await their fate against rising tides and the occasional barrage of nor’easters. Walking the eroding shoreline the mind slows, the imagination awakens, and in just a few square feet, other worlds may appear.”
