Rikki Bunder, Chaos Below Red (PLACES 2025)

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This image is part of an ongoing series in which I use infrared photography to explore the concept of chaos within natural environments. Photographing chaos presents a unique challenge — it resists structure, evades clarity, and often dissolves into visual noise. By working in infrared, I remove much of the surface-level distraction found in colour and/or conventional black and white photography. The result is a stripped-back visual language that paradoxically renders the underlying chaos more visible, more felt. The unfamiliar tones and heightened contrasts of infrared create a surreal space in which natural disorder becomes eerily tactile, revealing patterns, tensions, and hidden structures that might otherwise remain unseen.

Images have been resized for web display, which may cause some loss of image quality. Note: Original high-resolution images are used for judging.