“Trees … seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life "
- C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Our approaches to photography are very different, yet we found common ground in being drawn to photograph trees. Because we had a relatively short time in which to collaborate, we each drew from our archives to create a collection of images of single trees. We learned that we approach collaboration and communication differently, as well as photographing differently.

Mark Indig was born in New York City and lives in Los Angeles. He has spent 42 years in the motion picture industry, most recently as a Studio Executive, Producer and Unit Production Manager for companies such as Disney, Miramax, Universal and Dreamworks. He has worked on films such as Body Heat, The Big Chill, Titanic, The Village, The Guardian, Tropic Thunder and the ridiculously expensive and disappointing Lone Ranger. But it was his 15 years as a Location Scout/Manager that gave him a love of photography and a unique perspective on the landscape; learning how to tell a story about each location in a few images. He wishes every photograph he takes would be beautiful AND interesting, but if he had to choose, interesting wins.

J. M. Golding is a photographic artist based in the San Francisco Bay area. Her work explores the emotional and symbolic significance of the natural world as it reflects internal, subjective experience. Through the photograph, the world outside the person illuminates processes deep inside us that may not be readily accessible to awareness. J. M. chooses plastic, pinhole, and vintage film cameras and cameraless techniques as her primary tools: plastic cameras such as the Holga for the playfulness and spontaneity they promote and their capacity to help create dreamlike images, pinhole cameras for their simplicity and their contemplative quality, vintage film cameras for the subjectivity of the images that are possible, and cameraless techniques for the purity of making images with light alone. J. M.’s award-winning photographs have been shown internationally in numerous juried group exhibitions and have appeared books and in print and online magazines and on photography websites.

J. M. Golding - www.jmgolding.com
Mark Indig - markindigphoto.com