Highlands County, Florida, 2013 @ Chuck Hemard
I've recently started to look at trees
and, in no time at all, have become increasingly fascinated by the
many shapes and forms in which they happen to inhabit planet earth.
Hence my interest in this tome by American photographer Chuck Hemard
who, I learn from the press release, „grew up in the middle of the
pine belt of southern Mississippi where as a child he would rake
longleaf pine needles, collect them in wheelbarrows, and move them to
the landscaping beds around his yard. The imprint of this landscape
on his identity would later inform his work as a professional
photographer.“
In 2010, he embarked on a seven-year
photographic study of the longleaf pine trees of the Deep South and
the landscape that supports them. The result you can see in this
tome. I do not tire to look at these pines – I'm saying this on
purpose for I do have the feeling that I'm looking at pines and not
at photographs of pines. And, as is often the case when looking at
photographs of nature – it is nature who is the artist, not the
photographer. This is not to diminish the importance of these pics
for they make it possible and thus allow me to imagine the Coastal
Plain of the southeastern United States where they were taken.
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