Jeremy Starn - Unnatural Nature

Photography of the nonhuman fulfills a desire to capture the wild. To tame the weird. However by flattening the roundness of reality, the thorniness of being is stripped. What happens when pictures of "Nature" misbehave?

Attending to photographic image-making as a human tool for control, I work to conversely utilize the medium to re-imagine relations with the nonhuman. Applying methodologies of queer ecology, this series treats photographs as uncontainable, codependent, evolving beings, allowing images to emerge as themselves. What new worlds take root when photos resist their ideological function to capture and instead become their own?