NOTES ON FUTURE LANDSCAPES

The idea for this portfolio came from imagining a distant landscape that future generations, far from Earth, might inhabit. Hopefully the landscape would convey the ambivalence of strangeness and familiarity, of danger and safety, in an atmosphere of beauty and mystery.

For the concept to be photographed, a set and models were designed and built by the photographer in his studio in New York City in 1996.

Domes and cylinders were chosen for their apparent structural strength and a sense of coherence compared to the open and rough surroundings. A quasi-desert environment portrayed with saturated colors was chosen to convey harshness that contrasts with the warm interior light of the structures.

The images were lit with electronic flash and recorded on film.