EXPOSURES
CONSERVATIONISM
THE FOREST FOR
THE TREES
SOUTH AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHER GARTH MEYER’S
LARGE-FORMAT PHOTOGRAPHS OF PRIMARY FORESTS
IN AFRICA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA ARE A STUNNING
DOCUMENT OF DISAPPEARING NATURAL BEAUTY.
BY CONOR RISCH
“I LIKE BEAUTIFUL melodies telling me terrible things,” musician Tom Waits has
said. The method of wrapping a difficult truth in an esthetically pleasing package
is one contemporary photographers should appreciate. Many of them use a version of this strategy to draw viewers into stories on challenging subjects, encouraging them to ask, “That’s beautiful, what is it?”
Fortunately, Some Things Never Change
In 1984, Paul Peregrine revolutionized the photographic case
market by inventing the Lightware Case; the first soft case
structurally strong enough to stand on.
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All Photos © GArth Meyer
Garth Meyer began photographing forests because he was looking for an appropriate
subject to shoot with his custon-built, large-format camera.
