Fire Inside Rain

• Photographer
  Nicholas Dunn

The Highlands were dull and wind-scoured until the sky unzipped and rain began to walk the plain. A white thread of river lit up in the distance. The ash drank deep; the cones darkened to velvet and their rims flashed iron-red, like embers under wet bark. Mist stacked the ridges, sound fell to a hiss, and the land held its breath. I waited inside the squall for that one turn of light when fire lived inside the rain. Then the weather closed again and everything went flat—except this moment, kept the way it briefly was.

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.