My work explores the beauty, fragility, and permanence of the natural world through photography. Drawn to landscapes, botanical subjects, and quiet details often overlooked in daily life, I use photography as a way of slowing down and engaging in close, attentive observation.

My practice moves between traditional landscape photography and expanded approaches that include long exposures, light painting, multiple exposures, impressionistic methods of capture, and cyanotype processes. These techniques allow images to shift between clarity and abstraction, where time, movement, and memory become visible within a single frame. Cyanotype extends this exploration into an alternative, material-based process rooted in light, chemistry, and the natural world.

Alongside this photographic work, I maintain a separate practice focused on pressed botanicals, collected plant material, and floral compositions. While distinct, these practices occasionally intersect, creating layered studies of place, season, and transformation.

Underlying both practices is a sense of wonder toward creation. I see the natural world not simply as scenery, but as something living, intentional, and worthy of attention. Through photography and material work, I explore how memory, place, and perception shape what we see, holding moments of stillness, movement, and change.

Chelsea Reher