Sandymount Trees, by Alan Dove

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Alan Dove’s well-constructed and evocative environmental art photography can be found through his website https://dovephotography.co.nz/fine-art-portfolios. Photographs retain the imprint of the original moment of seeing, Alan Dove’s photographs convey scenes that are now iconic, but may not remain; they are images of something understood as durable that is in fact transitory. These are beautifully printed: today, with so much digital imagery we can sometimes forget that a photographic print is an artform itself. This black and white view of Sandymount’s bent trees reflects a landscape transformed by the macrocarpa, now itself almost a historical species.