Daniel Shea's photography navigates the intricate relationships between architecture, urban environments, and individual identity. His journey began with a documentary on coal activism in West Virginia and evolved into a dual focus on personal projects and commercial work. His monograph, Distribution, examines how to photograph a forest, starting with visits to a Queens nature reserve and expanding over five years across various countries. The images capture the repetitive patterns formed by nature and urban landscapes, challenging viewers to contemplate their surroundings and experiences in bustling environments.
His new monograph Distribution began with one deceptively simple question - how do you photograph a forest? It started in 2020 with meandering visits to a nature reserve near Queens, spiralling into a five-year study of woodlands in America, Japan and Mexico, which were used to inform new images in places like Dubai and Tokyo.
Shooting only through the windshields of moving cars and stripping all markers of place, Distribution immerses the viewer in a dizzying, gridded repetition of branches, highways, and skyscrapers that suffocatingly echo the notion of not being able to see the wood through the trees.
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