Imaginary Lands
âGoing up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest.” – Joseph Conrad,
Heart of Darkness (1902).
In Olivia Lavergne’s (b. 1979)
Jungles, the viewer is immersed in a tropical forest filled with a fascinating luxuriance â a strange beauty beckoning to be explored. Lush and verdant, with vignette borders, the images play with light, sculpting the landscape and our path through it as onlookers.
The photographs cast a sense of doubt as we look deeper into the intricate details: branches overlapping over one another and streams of sunlight jarring against unexpected shadows. Here lies an unpredictable and unsettling adventure.