In this collection, I explored the enduring myth of the untouched "natural" landscape.
The idea of the land in its original state of "chastity." While humanity is inextricably part of nature, our primal instinct for survival has driven us, over millennia, to master it rather than live in parity with it. This collection documents the inescapable result of that millennia-long struggle.

Where we expect to find a wilderness, we instead discover a complex web of human markers. I have sought out landscapes that appear, at first glance, to be devoid of life. Yet, as a multimedia journalist and photographer, I use my lens to uncover the subtle (and not-so-subtle) human fingerprints embedded within them: the ash of a recent industrial fire, wind-blown plastic debris, or the faint lattice of power grids dissecting the sky.

The chastity of the land challenges our perspective, revealing that these manipulated terrains are not disasters, but rather our new baseline. I invite you to see these landscapes for what they are—the unique "chastity" of a human-shaped earth.