2015 / Nature / Landscapes

Enchanted Lands

  • Photographer
    Jack Curran

From high altitude mountain ranges to desert monuments, this area of the country hold can a plethora of different opportunities and experiences for the photographer. When you stand at the base of Shiprock, or beholds the natural wonders of Monument Valley's, Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii Valley of Rocks, there is a true spiritual feeling of awe. While it is inspiring, it can be quite challenging to create images that represent the emotion one feels. My hope is that I've captured at least a semblance of this in these photographs.

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.