Perspectives on Nature

Issue nr. 6 2025

In Artdoc issue #6 2025, Perspectives on Nature, we feature four portfolios that each present their unique perspective on Nature. In The Material Life of Plants, Teri Figliuzzi explores photography to preserve the beauty of change during times of upheaval and uncertainty. Tristan Duke uses melting ice as the pencil of nature in his series Glacial Optics, observing the changing environment through lenses made of ice. Justin Pumfrey presents the poetic series Walking the Luminous Edge of Darkness, which he shot during the dark hours in a state of mind without labels. Tsung-yu Lu’s abstract photography combines scientific thought with artistic drive, pushing the limits of image creation. The essay Blueprints, Botanicals, and the Contemporary Cyanotype traces the cyanotype’s journey from a nineteenth-century scientific tool to a contemporary photographic language.