Photographer Garret Suhrie

Flooded Cypress #1- a cypress filled bayou and wonderful forest dotted with lazy lakes and gators. I'm so used to kayaking around places like this and only being able to get one vantage of beautiful scenery. I loved this spot because there was a short boardwalk the over a lake which allowed me to be above and looking down on trees.

I am your standard wanderer and photographer, guess you could say Los Angeles based though often living on the road in my Tacoma, or a tent in the backcountry.  A lifetime ago, I went to school for painting and art history, which were a huge influence on my photography.  Though the aerial you chose doesn't reflect it, I focus mainly on long exposures and painting with light; I just traded in my paintbrush for a flashlight.

Gold Dredge of Chicken, Ak - Along the 'Top of the World Highway', just before the northern most crossing from Alaska into the Yukon, there's a little town called Chicken. Its about 8 shacks and the hulking remains of this massive gold dredge, once used to facilitate the famous Klondike gold rush. Seeing the little slice of history was rewarding enough, the northern lights flaring up and giving me a show was just the icing on the cake.

I've been an insomniac long as I can remember, and the night time is often such a strange and surreal stage, it gives a peculiar feeling which I try to fuse into my work. For myself at least, there's nothing better than the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.  I try to capture that strange and share a view of the world not so often seen.  I've been featured in dozens of notable publications and galleries around the world, most recently a finalist in the Windland Rice Smith competition and exhibited in the Smithsonian.  

Grand Canyon of Industrial Waste - aerial images from a project I worked up, up and down the Mississippi, lined on either side with refineries, power plants, mills and factories for as far as the eye can see, looking for beauty the strange wastelands of our own waste.

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