VISION

I have been a photographer for long enough to avoid the ‘consumerist’ aspect of photography, it is an easy trap. I can see many sunsets, views, cloud formations, but not all of them draw me into photographing them. Occasionally I will ‘feel’ a powerful hill, an intriguing cloud formation or something in nature that overwhelms me with the need to capture it - this moment in time. When I look at the resulting image in the editing process, it will either still hold that essence or not. If it does, then I explore that essence deeper. Much as a writer's hand is 'directed by the muse.' My muse is the land that I have photographed. 

These photographs offer the nurturing of a depth of being in relationship with our Earth. 

Imagine a world in which people ask the country around them what it wanted and needed. Imagine if we sat and listened to what it has to say. It is something we can all attain, and I believe there is a genuine need and calling for us to aspire to. It has happened this way for hundreds of thousands of years within indigenous cultures who are masters of sustainability, memory, communication-connection to the Earth, the cosmos, the elements and ancestral intelligence.

I am a professional photographer, and recently I have been guided by EagleHeart, a Native American shaman, who motivates me to deepen these expressions and connections. He helps me to trust the intelligence of nature and encourages me to witness more than the eye can see,. He helps to strengthen the guidance I receive from ancestors, some of which are Native American who I remember sitting with me as a child and who now support me in expressing this work.

Serana (WhiteFeather) Hunt-Hughes