Breathtaking photographs of the Última Esperanza

I have never been a fan of landscape art. Growing up in a small mountain town, the local gallery walls were saturated with similar landscape photographs: trees, hills, mountains, trees, hills, mountains, trees, hills, trees--it all looked the same, like default Windows desktop backgrounds. Yet the work of  Reuben Wu proved to me that not all landscape art is ubiquitous.

In his series, "Última Esperanza," Wu captured images of Chile's Última Esperanza, including the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. Wu seems to contain an acute awareness of form and color, using the environment's curves, jagged ice faces, and reflective nature to his advantage. He is thus able to construct dynamic compositions with stagnant land masses

I find myself enamored, if not completely awestruck, by Wu's impressive snapshots of the Última Esperanza's unique physicality. Wu has a knack for emphasizing the beauty of nature as well as the beauty in his own artistic skill.

 

 

 

Image credit: Reuben Wu