Honorable Mention TOKYO-2016 Fine Art / Landscape

The Dunes of Death Valley

  • Photographer
    Jack Curran

For the detailed dune studies I had to adapt to a softer and more subtle approach, hunting for the flow of light. These images almost appear to be illuminated much the way the human form is illuminated in soft morning light.

You might say there was a natural collision of circumstances between Jack’s nearly lifelong love of nature, and that of photography. His wondrous journey into nature began when he attended an Outward Bound month-long wilderness course at age 16. At 18, (just over 40 years ago) he picked up his first camera, developed his first B&W print in the darkroom and quickly put his two passions together. In recent years Jack’s photography has been exhibited in Paris, Athens, Berlin, Moscow, and Malaga Spain and domestically in the US and published internationally.