River #3

Jonathan Smith spent the early years of his career assisting and printing for renowned photographer Joel Meyerowitz, and has had solo exhibitions both in the United States and Internationally. His work consists of large-scale, highly nuanced color photographs of the stark natural beauty and inherent impermanence of landscapes. Smith has been photographing natural landscapes for more than 15 years. Shooting precisely and selectively with incredible detail, Smith often revisits the same site on several occasions until he feels the essential character of the landscape has been revealed to him. This conscious and gradual process of documentation results in meditations on land, water, and air. His investigations of the landscape have led him to the remote locations of northern Iceland and southern Patagonia, where he photographed streams, glaciers, glacial rivers, and waterfalls. These landscapes, devoid of human presence, display a world lost in time.