Moss & Milk: Highland Rivers

• Photographer
  Nicholas Dunn

Glacial melt draws milk-blue lines across black sand. Silt drifts like smoke, neon moss flares at the margins, and the channels sketch keys, roots, deltas and crossings. Each frame is a different sentence in the same language—maps written by water that never repeats itself. I shaped the set for texture and tone as much as place, waiting for the brief pauses when light calmed the surface and the patterns turned painterly. Six moments, held before the river rewrote them.

Nicholas Dunn began photographing at age ten, inspired by his father and grandmother. From the Kansas plains to landscapes abroad, he developed a style rooted in abstraction, where nature reads like drawing or design. By eighteen, his work earned international recognition, including multiple honors at the International Photography Awards with a second place in Architecture/Historic. Through fire, water, ice, and land, Nicholas seeks to reveal the patterns and fleeting visions etched by the earth itself.