Values Statement

Everyday, animals are going about their lives just as humans do. They are eating, chasing, breeding, fleeing, hiding, and so on. These actions are fundamentally connected. Animals pollinating plants is the most well known. But what about a bird scraping leaf litter for food, unintentionally aerating the soil for seeds to sprout. What about insects eating plant pests, unintentionally reducing stresses on plants. Those plants could be the food that we eat, or the plants that our food eats.

Nature has a splendour all of its own, but the greatest splendour is how the interconnectivity of so many actions provide the food, the water, the environment that humans need to live. However, that environment is fragile. Human actions can have an unintentional impact on the animals and plants whose actions are vital for preserving that environment.

My photography aims to showcase nature to help humans appreciate how important it is for us. I want humans to see the story of nature so that we understand how it all connects. I want to inspire people to see nature’s splendour through photography so that we all want to protect our shared environment.