David Benjamin Sherry - The Artist's Studio - MOCAtv

David Benjamin Sherry journeys to Joshua Tree National Park, California, to breathe new life into the art historical tradition of landscape photography. Like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston before him, Sherry—a recent transplant to Southern California—hikes into the wilderness carrying a large-format camera, an analog device that captures the landscape in painstaking detail. Yet unlike the naturalists, Sherry sees the rock formations and dramatic vistas through a lens of humanity, perhaps as symbols of what scientists refer to as the anthropocene, or geological age of man. Printed in bright, sensational color, his photographs—part of a series titled Climate Vortex Sutra—are "magical and alchemical," a depiction of the natural world yet unseen.

All artworks by David Benjamin Sherry:

"Melancholic Metadata," Oregon Coast, 2014
Traditional Color Darkroom Photograph
30 x 40 inches

"Cybernetic Water Witch," Grand Tetons, Wyoming, 2014
Traditional Color Darkroom Photograph
30 x 40 inches

"Wilderness of Mirrors," Idaho, 2014
Traditional Color Darkroom Photograph
40 x 50 inches

"Geothermal Antisocial Network Earth Explosion," Utah, 2014
Traditional Color Darkroom Photograph
20 x 24 inches

"Climate Vortex Sutra (For Allen Ginsburg)," Hana, Hawaii, 2014
Traditional Color Darkroom Photograph
30 x 40 inches

"Deep Blue Sea Rising," Oregon, 2014
Traditional Color Darkroom Photograph
30 x 40 inches

"All The Words Float in Sequence," Joshua Tree, 2014
Traditional Color Darkroom Photograph
71 x 90 inches