Death Valley

• Photographer
  Jack Curran

I went to Death Valley in May fully expecting to burn in the Sun and get wonderful high-contrast, highly textured and rippled dunes photographs. What actually transpired was three days of overcast skies, extremely high winds and the occasional thunderstorm. Of course, adapting to what Mother Nature delivers is all part of the game.

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.