What Springs Up?(85)

• Prize
• Photographer
  Horace Trovato, United States

What Springs Up?(85) is a reference to Psalm 85. Verse 11
says, "Faithfulness springs up from the ground, and righteousness
looks down from the sky." This series asks what is springing up from
our ground? What does what we build, and how it fits into the
landscape, say about us? Between the cheaply built housing and the
corporate land-scraping it does not paint a favorable picture of our relationship with the Earth. Just outside the boundaries of our developments we can see what faithfulness to the Earth might look like, the faithfulness of the seasons, the righteousness of the trees. There is so much beauty around us, but it is not ours, and we choose to clash with what remains. The series begins in the developments and moves outward. The contrast is striking, equally so the beauty that we might have missed.
Printed on Ilford gelatin-silver and bound by hand.

• Awards
  Px3 2018 Book Proposal Bronze Winner