© Elizabeth Moreno

In “Close to Earth,” Elizabeth Moreno captures the culture and life of Baja California’s rancheros, focusing on the particular fusion between past and present that they experience-a fragile equilibrium that is about to be broken by the forces of globalization. Moreno won the 2010 Daylight CDS Photo Awards Work-in-Process Prize and was Vince Aletti’s Juror’s Pick for her diptychs, which “give us a sense of a person and a place, and how deeply interconnected they are-how a place can shape a person.” The deadline for this year’s Daylight CDS Photo Awards is May 15, with guest jurors Anthony Bannon, Darren Ching, Stacey Clarkson, Whitney Johnson, Joel Sternfeld, and Sasha Wolf.

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Today we present nine images by Canadian photographer Adam Makarenko from his recent Northern Highways & Rockcuts project. Influenced by science and nature, Makarenko creates a vivid tableau vivant through miniatures, which he photographs into poignant visual narratives concerned with human intervention in nature. Makarenko won the Magenta Foundation’s Bright Spark Award in 2008.

Below the images, Makarenko and PDN’s Darren Ching discuss working with miniatures and the inspiration for this project.

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