Nathan Levig

A lot of my work centers around a deep connection to land and self. We often forget about the hidden human imprint on the land, as those imprints are erased over the years. I attempt to learn about these imprints, through the history of land, but also through cultural paradigms that shape how we live our lives, and dismantling revisionist histories that we are taught in academic settings. I hope to understand how gaze theory impacts how we perceive ourselves and the world around us, and how the male gaze is proliferated through media and popular culture. A colonial gaze, and language model has been applied to land based photography for a long time, particularly in how we describe these type of images, and how they are made. Using photography to deepen my understanding of self, and the places I inhabit, I hope to start a long process of decolonializing my own personal framework, and the language that I use in the hopes that others might be inspired to do so too.