Anuta

Anuta is a small, remote island in the eastern Solomon Islands, in the South Pacific. The series approaches it through close physical encounters: a boy raises broad leaves above his head; a swimmer crosses an immense field of blue; children balance along palm trunks above the shore; fish rest against a fisher’s body.

The photographs move between dense green interiors and open water, between intimate details and figures set against the horizon. Vivid blues and greens give the images a strong visual presence, while shifts in scale—from a body nearly absorbed by foliage to a swimmer suspended in the sea—shape how the island is seen. The landscape presses close, surrounds its inhabitants, and enters the gestures through which they move through the day.

Climbing, carrying, swimming, and fishing recur as physical exchanges with the island. Through these gestures, the work considers how belonging takes form in a place: in the movement of people through the forest, along the shore, and across the water.