Today, nature both heals us and threatens us. As we spend more time than ever indoors looking at screens, neuroscientists demonstrate that time outside is vital to human health and happiness. Yet, we are vulnerable to the storms, droughts, heatwaves, and freezes that result from climate change. Human Nature is a series of photographic stories about how we rely on nature in the context of climate change. Each story is set in a different ecosystem: city, forest, farm, desert, ice field, ocean, and lava flow. The photographs examine our need for “wild” places—even when those places are human constructions. - About Human Nature By Lucas Folia
Fig 1: Kinley Holding a Bag of Bull Testicles during a Branding, Texas 2019 // Lucas Foglia
Fig 2: Alicia Clearing Land for Farming, California 2012 // Lucas Foglia
Fig 3: Michael Gleaning Cotton, Texas 2006 // Lucas Foglia
What draws me to Folia's work is how he examines our deep desire and need for nature as part of our wellbeing alongside our vulnerability to the elements and the changing climate.
I enjoy how he explores different regions and our search to find the wilderness in them.
As my work develops, I also want to explore the effects the areas I am investigating have an influence on us, why are we drawn to this area or land? What do we gain from being here, and do we have a positive or negative impact by being there?
Reference:
foglia, L., 2018. Lucas Foglia | Human Nature. [online] Lucasfoglia.com. Available at: <http://lucasfoglia.com/human-nature/human-nature-statement/> [Accessed 28 July 2020].