Nick Brandt
The Day May Break
Chapter I & II
The Day May Break is an ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.


The Door of Perception
The Day May Break is an ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.
The boundaries between the real and the imagined dissolve, vegetal phenomena slip into the guise of human dramas, and we can sense the magical entanglement of all realms of experience …
Her heartfelt portraits of mothers and children are imbued with an almost utopian serenity. This same raw, earthy beauty flows through all her creations, whether it’s her vibrant cakes or her drawings made with natural pigments.
Garden of Eden explores the vast world of psychoactive plants, animals and other organisms, and their uses in shamanism, spiritual exploration and healing.
The Kogi hold a unique position; on a bloodstained continent they alone have never been conquered, and have succeeded in preserving their four thousand year old understanding of the world.
The Brazilian-born photographer Valdir Cruz has lived in the United States for more than thirty years, yet much of his…
Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years to document the unfathomable wonder of this last frontier. The forest, the rivers, the mountains, and the people who live there.
Her vibrant nature scenes convey a sense of the divine in nature and are reminiscent of the Transcendental Painting Group.
I think it is fair to say that Pete Mauney is obsessed with photographing fireflies. For more than twenty years he finds solace in his nocturnal wanderings and an inexhaustible challenge for the next interesting composition.
Apocalyptic landscapes imbued with an ominous presence, that reminds me of the frailty of everything we deem safe and irrefutable.
The following drawings are taken from the Wurzelatlas, a book series that began in 1960 and is regarded as the standard work on root research.
Her paintings speak to us with such a refreshing immediacy, reminding us how wild it is to be alive.
Each picture reveals minute features and textures that are normally invisible to the naked eye.
Like a deep well evoking forgotten concepts about origins, belonging, and the presence of spiritual forces in the world.
Lawren Harris was born into one of Canada’s wealthiest families and was destined for a life in aristocratic circles, yet he always felt more at home in the great outdoors.
A poetic and cinematic research into spirituality and its music in Brazil by Priscilla Telmon & Vincent Moon.
A book of unseen photographs documenting the early days of the British direct action environmental movement from 1995—1999.
His meticulously rendered landscapes suggest a nostalgia for Eden and the availability of peace and joy through an expanded awareness of the beauty inherent in the land.
For more than forty years, Arno Rafael Minkkinen has been photographing his body immersed in nature. What you see happening in the image happened in front of the lens.
Burchfield’s nature scenes strike me as among the most experiential art I know, as he’s able to put you right into his synesthetic experience of nature.
To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness.
The images of Simen Johan speak to me because of their perfection, showing us the animal kingdom in a supernatural…
The painter has a language which translates meaning to the viewer beyond that which the viewer’s experience can give.
Automatic Earth refers to what I see as a ‘blue print’ that exists within nature; a plan within each organism to automatically generate a particular form or pattern that is then, inevitably flawed.
I grew up with Tintin and I just realized how formative Hergé’s ‘ligne claire’ was for me. His distinct visual…
These portraits of the woods are influenced by imaging neuroscience. Especially the colors are reminiscent of the artist’s experience with fluorescence microscopy.
Especially the persistent interest in depicting light characterizes the dreamlike atmosphere in the woodblock prints of Hasui Kawase
Seeds are the most complex organs produced by plants, capable of traveling space and time to ensure the biodiversity of our planet.
The image of Bali as a place of great physical beauty laced with a mysterious spirituality has its origins in the works of a small circle of bohemian expats in the 1930, of whom Spies was the most influential.
Joth Shakerley is following the Rainbow Family for over twenty years. The pictures he brought back are beyond words.
The woodcut prints of Tom Killion speak of a deep love for the landscape, a passion for the poetics of…
I wanted to make a post about the Brazilian visionary artist Tuco Amalfi for some time already. Now I saw…
Primitive Technology is a hobby where you make things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials. This is the strict rule.
Jean Delville was a Belgian painter who painted heavily symbolic scenes with a occult oriented spiritual perspective.
For more than fifty years the Dillon’s formed one of the most successful and influential illustrator partnership.
There is a small group of painters who are able to invoke nature’s serene magic. Isono is one of them and his love for the forest is very tangible.
Reisewitz’ photographs, most of all large formats, explore the changing relation of the city and the countryside in a period of feverish economic development.
Edward James — described by Salvador Dalí as “crazier than all the Surrealists together” — designed a sculptural dream garden that defies any architectural label.
Filmed mostly on a stationary 16mm camera, this documentary is the modern-day Walden.
“The American literature doesn’t have a more beautiful and more profound book than Walden” commented Hermann Hesse. And I knew…
Goldsworthy is at play with the relentless flow of the elements, forming fragile and temporary moments in time.
Ben Roberts creates photographic contemplations of rural Japan with an unique artistic signature.
Tomás Sánchez is best known as a painter of landscapes. These scenes are the sweetest praise of nature and meditation.
Today I woke up with a longing for color and the jungle. So I knew it’s time for Henri Rousseau.…
These days the light returns and I behold an enchanted world. I feel so grateful for this gift of vision and the living world it presents to me.
Beth Moon has been photographing some of the largest, rarest, and oldest trees on Earth for the past fourteen years.
Steve Axford does what he likes most. It’s taking pictures and exploring the living world that unfolds evermore interconnectedness to him.
Rabuzin found the utmost simplicity, concision and perfection in the sphere and the circle, which were to become his symbols of the absolute, symbols of completeness.
Roger Dean is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in…
Lately I also rediscovered the wholesome experience of being with with a group of strangers who share an intention of love & growth.