"Luminous Palm Trees and Other Botanicals" is a street photography series on film that explores the uneasy entanglement between human infrastructure and botanical life. Rather than centering the figure or the decisive moment, these images draw attention to plants as silent witnesses—participants in the ongoing drama of urban life.  The result is a visual archaeology of coexistence, tension, and adaptation.

 

My work positions plants not as background, but as subjects caught in a cultural ecology shaped by neglect, control, and unintended beauty. Palm trees glow under sodium vapor lights. Maple trees protects a boy fishing. My favorite pampas grass growing above train tracks in front of the sea. These moments, pulled from daily observation, reveal a quiet absurdity and latent vitality in the overlooked spaces of the cultural environment.

 

This series treats the urban botanical landscape as a kind of ethnographic site—alive, adaptive, and strangely luminous brought forth on silver gelatin. The photographs ask us to consider how nonhuman life resists, accommodates, and persists in the shadows of human systems.