Cameras do not report one objective reality but the world as the photographer sees it. Commonly, an image is believed to be ‘real’ or at least an accurate portrayal of reality. A large component of the perception of reality in images has to do with the way photographs imitate our three dimensional world. Pressed Landscapes subverts this traditional use of photography to sound a warning about the loss of our precious natural landscapes. Through careful selection of subject matter, finely tuned compositions and deliberate work with focal length, the photographs in Pressed Landscapes portray a world flattened and static in time – as if pressed in the pages of a scrapbook and preserved for some future generation to stumble upon and wonder at what once was.

This somewhat darkly whimsical take on traditional landscape photography at once reveals the hand of the photographer while simultaneously inviting us to ponder the existence of a world beyond the fixed photo on the page.

All photos by Samantha Chrysanthou