“For as long as I can remember I have felt most at peace outdoors. Nature has always been my refuge and sanctuary. I find the natural world to be endlessly wondrous in its range of character and texture, from moments of delicate intimacy and subtlety to the massively expansive and powerful. Nature is in constant change, and photography is particularly well suited to capture and amplify the swirling fluidity and the wonderfully serendipitous moments born of the ephemeral. Photographing nature is a very specific kind of exercise in mindfulness; to be out in nature with senses responsive, keenly aware of circumstances and completely receptive, yielding to the present. The photographs in this book represent some of my observations while investigating nature over these last several years; moments that represent my awe, wonder, and affinity towards our Earth.”
Jeffrey Conley
Jeffrey Conley is a fine art landscape photographer who specializes in creating traditional black-and-white prints. Meticulously crafted, they are made in small, limited editions utilizing traditional darkroom processes. His work has been exhibited and collected by private collectors and museums worldwide. In 2023, the Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre in Nice (France) dedicated a solo exhibition to Jeffrey Conley. Three monographs of his work, Winter (2011), Reverence (2018), and West (2023) have been published by Nazraeli Press.
Conley’s photographs strive for a balanced simplicity that is informed with his sense of wonder and reverence for the natural world. Scale and palette vary, from small, intimate and subtle to large, grand and dramatic. In all he seeks to capture a meditative spirit that uniquely defines his approach to photographing the landscape. He strives to create luminous hand-coated platinum and palladium prints that he feels possess a distinctive richness unique to traditional photographic processes.