“Each image identifies different aspects of living in climate justice through nature, taken on various Hiking trails.

Mushroom is a close-up textural image of a mushroom cloud as a result of the 2022 forest fires. There’s an eerie beauty to their natural pools of light and texture.

Athabasca, the glacier loses depth at a rate of 5m a year since 1900 it has receded over 1.5 km and lost over half of its volume. Full of cracks and chopped ice, what lies beyond this image is an ice field, once a vast landscape is rapidly receding.

Highway to… , shows a highway emerging through trees, cutting through the landscape. I find this picture metaphorical for the slicing through of natural parks for human access, the concrete highway is so small in comparison, re-centring our perceptions of humanity, we must realise that nature is far bigger than us and far more important. We as a society have to question what are we driving to and what does it cost to get there?”

Ash Tomkins

“Bermuda-born and Edinburgh-based artist, and photographer.”