About this landscape photography portfolio

Nature and culture: an inexhaustible source

Nature is no mere backdrop. It carries memory, territory, presence. In this portfolio, landscapes present themselves to the lens as so many visual puzzles: a blazing field of poppies, lines of force cutting across the frame, a light that hesitates between the incidental and the absolute.

But here, nature is always in dialogue with culture. The urban landscape creeps in between the wild grasses; the hand of man is never far away. That, perhaps, is what this body of work is really about: refusing to draw a clean line between the wild and the built, between the spontaneous and the deliberate.

To photograph nature is also to remember. The Isles of Scilly, Brittany, the Pyrenees, the back roads — every image carries the imprint of a place passed through, a light caught in the instant just before it shifts. Landscape photography is less a celebration than a question. What are we really looking at when we raise our eyes?

An inexhaustible source, then. Not through abundance, but through depth.

Landscapes, urban landscapes and nature gallery

Landscape Photography: Land, City, Nature and Wildlife

Landscape photography is not about recording what is there. It is about choosing what matters. A hillside in the Ariège catching the last light, a Paris street corner emptied by rain, a macro shot of a flower reduced to pure geometry: each image starts with a decision about what to include and, more importantly, what to leave out.

This portfolio covers four interconnected territories: open landscapes, urban cityscapes, nature close-up, and wildlife in its environment. The approach stays consistent across all four — documentary in instinct, personal in execution, attentive to light and to the moment that will not repeat itself.

Yann Gourvennec has practiced landscape and nature photography since childhood, from Brittany to the Couserans in the French Pyrenees, and from the streets of Paris to the Scottish Highlands. The work is ongoing, driven by curiosity rather than commission.

Prints are available on Singulart.