Paradise Fire

Ghost Forest, Eatonville, Washington, August 2015, 2015, archival pigment print, 48″ x 61″. Courtesy of the artist and Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles.

David Benjamin Sherry’s exhibition “Paradise Fire” is at Moran Bondaroff Gallery, in Los Angeles, through December 12. Sherry photographs the American West using an unwieldy 8×10 field camera. “My interest lays in the changing American landscape, and this new series of pictures reflects my unease,” he wrote in a statement for the exhibition. He told Opening Ceremony, “I was drawn into the desert for its sheer brilliance of fossilized time, the blinding luminosity of its stones and rocks, the infinite desolate space, the wildly varied and brightly colored sun-bleached palettes, the supernatural light, the invisibility of space and surroundings, the supreme silence like no other natural landscape, and the infinite horizon and endless repetition in minimal form.” —D. P.

Near the Future Sight of Portal Preserve, a Housing Development, Lone Pine, California, July 2015, 2015, archival pigment print, 48″ x 61″. Courtesy of the artist and Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles.

Wildfire Rising Behind Crater Lake, Oregon, August 2015, 2015, archival pigment print, 30″ x 38″. Courtesy of the artist and Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles.

Climbers on El Cap, Yosemite National Park, California, March 2014, 2015, archival pigment print, 61″ x 48″. Courtesy of the artist and Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles.