The Nature of Man elaborates on the intersection of landscape and queer identity. By placing queer bodies within the sanctuary of nature, this series reveals queerness not as separate from its rhythms but as a timeless gift woven into its beauty and mystery. The subjects are not only figures in the frame; they become living landscapes, their bodies mirroring and conversing with the terrain around them. These photographs emerge from queer mythos—an interconnected body of stories, beliefs, and values that speak to belonging, desire, intimacy, and reverence for the land.

In a time when bodies and identities are increasingly politicized, this work reclaims a queer presence in nature. Through portraits of my community (as well as self-portraits) surrounded by the sublime, I affirm our belonging: not as outsiders, but as integral to the earth’s harmony. Here solitude becomes ritual; connection becomes communion.

This project asks what it means to belong—to the earth and to each other—when we recognize that the social narrative that we’ve been told about being queer was never truth. The work positions queerness as a birthright; a uniqueness that is ancient, sacred, and enduring.

At its core, this series is deeply personal, rooted in my own journey through the landscape as a site of reflection and survival. Yet it reaches beyond me, collaborating with queer men across diverse geographies, embracing a queer community whose stories have long been absent from landscape photography. By placing these unique bodies in conversation with the earth, The Nature of Man offers a vision of queerness as natural and elemental to the living story of our planet.