描述
Edition 1/1
Year: 2021
Location: Downey, Idaho
Part of the Web3 movement "New Topographics | Man Altered Landscape," a tribute to the 1975 exhibition.
After completing my final photography trip to Arco, Idaho for an upcoming photo book, I decided to take a new route back home. Freshly plowed roads, a deceivingly blue sky, and numbing cold accompanied me as I stopped to photograph Downata Hot Springs. I walked around in the snow, taking photos as long as I could bear. Without any other person in sight, it was difficult to imagine the place bustling with visitors in the summer.
I was drawn to a rusty green waterslide set on a hill towards the back of the property. Beneath the stillness of winter snow, steam rose faintly from the hot springs and nearby canal. My hands started losing feeling while I worked to meticulously compose this image—balancing the staircase on the left with the powerlines on the right.
The end result is a capture I'm proud of—one that portrays the winter landscape of my home state and people's utilization of it to create a natural hot springs-fed waterpark.