Peter Geraerts - Salar de Uyuni (Milky Way, Bolivia)
91 x 61 cm, archival pigment print, edition of 25, 2018
If ever we need to be brought back to basics or realise our position in the galaxy then having the opportunity to be on the salt flats at night is one of those special moments. To have no light pollution, which is a privilege, you stand in awe as how many countless stars in the sky we can actually see. Peter took a longer exposure to allow sufficient light into the lens to get the picture but not so long to blur the ever moving stars.
Peter Geraerts
Peter is a photographer and environmentalist. His work discusses our precious natural landscape, our impact on the planet and the positive benefits of the wilderness on our wellbeing. Inspired as a boy by pioneering explorers, he has gone on to visit some of the most remote parts of our planet. Despite seeing evidence of retreating sea ice and tonnes of plastic getting into the food chain, he has chosen to provoke change by focusing on the raw beauty of the wilderness at the planet’s fringes.