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Artist Statement
When people think of Iceland, they usually think of ice. What stayed with me was not the ice itself, but the water that came from it. In this body of work, I explore water and how its force shapes everything around. It cuts through canyons, falls over cliffs, moves across black sand, and carves its way through the landscape. Again and again, I found myself drawn to that motion and to the way it organized the picture.
These photographs focus on waterfalls, rivers, shoreline, rock formations, and open landscape, but they are really about the relationship between movement and stillness, softness and hardness, and the scale between the human body and the natural world. For the first time in decades of photographing, I have come to embrace and deliberately include people. I once felt they detracted from the landscape, but I have learned that they can bring a sense of scale, presence, and sometimes surprise. I was interested in the atmosphere of these places as much as the locations themselves: the mist, overcast light, black sand, moss, and volcanic rock all contribute to a mood that feels both quiet and powerful. In each image, I wanted the viewer’s eye to travel through the frame the same way the water moves through the land.