Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth stated intention with these photographs of old-growth forests is not to make an ecological, romantic, or socioeconomic statement but to immerse the viewer in a dense jungle of trunks, branches, and foliage and inspire feelings of being overwhelmed and confused, reminding us, perhaps, of how ignorant we have become about finding our way home—to nature or any other imagined paradise. Struth says of Paradies: “I didn’t want to portray a specific place, that specific forest. Rather I was trying to feel within its primeval branchings the moment of beginning that once was the world.”