Nick Green, Entangled (PEOPLE 2022)

Exploring connection through the contrasting tones of human skin and Tasmanian Bull Kelp (Durvillaea Potatorum) as well as highlighting the fragile existence we share with our environment. The darkness represents my own personal mental health issues, a feeling of overpowering emotion This image was shot just down the road from where I live on the Tasman Peninsula, Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania; where there was once a gigantic kelp forest which has disappeared completely in recent years due to warming of the oceans..

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