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Topophilia is literally “love of place.” When Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan wrote a book entitled Topophilia in the 1970s, he claimed that the term could include “all emotional connections between physical environment and human beings.” Landscape photographers must focus on the natural beauty of place, the topography of the land and the dynamics of how light touches the earth. They reject man-made obstructions. Rather than exploring the natural landscape, I’m more drawn to the social landscape and the hints of the humans who were there. My quest in this series is to document these very obstructions and to focus on the traces of people and how they leave their marks on the landscape in simple and beautiful ways. -
Hotel art in Block Island, RI
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Author Karin Slaughter’s map in her North Georgia mountain
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Bed at an inn in the Aran Islands of Ireland
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Everglades City, Florida church potluck
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Birmingham, Alabama abortion clinic recovery room
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Everglades City, Florida, the view above an airboat
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Rural Kansas barn
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New Orleans ladder
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Girl’s bedroom, Prescott, AZ
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After the high school reunion, Lebanon, Kansas
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Lamb at a Greek Orthodox Easter feast in the Atlanta suburbs
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Masterpiece
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A back wall of the Sun City Model Railroad Club
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Skull Valley, Az horse
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Kansas wheat field and a dirt road
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Kansas wheat field
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A portrait of Lebanon, Kansas, geographic center of the continenal United States and population around 200. Photographed May 2010.
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A portrait of Lebanon, Kansas, geographic center of the continenal United States and population around 200. Photographed May 2010.
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Clothing for sale on a tennis court during a bazaar at the Holiday Around the World Celebration in Sun City, Az at the Lakeview Recreation Center December 10, 2010.
2010 marks the 50th anniversary of Sun City, America’s first retirement city that remains the largest today with more than 40,000 residents 55 and older.
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Whitehall, Montana farmer’s market
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Topophilia is literally “love of place.” When Geographer Yi-Fu Tuan wrote a book entitled Topophilia in the 1970s, he claimed that the term could include “all emotional connections between physical environment and human beings.” Landscape photographers must focus on the natural beauty of place, the topography of the land and the dynamics of how light touches the earth. They reject man-made obstructions. Rather than exploring the natural landscape, I’m more drawn to the social landscape and the hints of the humans who were there. My quest in this series is to document these very obstructions and to focus on the traces of people and how they leave their marks on the landscape in simple and beautiful ways. Hotel art in Block Island, RI
Author Karin Slaughter’s map in her North Georgia mountain
Bed at an inn in the Aran Islands of Ireland
Everglades City, Florida church potluck
Birmingham, Alabama abortion clinic recovery room
Everglades City, Florida, the view above an airboat
Rural Kansas barn
New Orleans ladder
Girl’s bedroom, Prescott, AZ
After the high school reunion, Lebanon, Kansas
Lamb at a Greek Orthodox Easter feast in the Atlanta suburbs
Masterpiece
A back wall of the Sun City Model Railroad Club
Skull Valley, Az horse
Kansas wheat field and a dirt road
Kansas wheat field
A portrait of Lebanon, Kansas, geographic center of the continenal United States and population around 200. Photographed May 2010.
A portrait of Lebanon, Kansas, geographic center of the continenal United States and population around 200. Photographed May 2010.
Clothing for sale on a tennis court during a bazaar at the Holiday Around the World Celebration in Sun City, Az at the Lakeview Recreation Center December 10, 2010.
2010 marks the 50th anniversary of Sun City, America’s first retirement city that remains the largest today with more than 40,000 residents 55 and older.
Whitehall, Montana farmer’s market