Flowers Gallery is delighted to present a suite of prints by photographer Janelle Lynch from her Prix Pictet award nominated project, Another Way of Looking at Love. The project will also be exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of Prix Pictet: Hope, from the 14 November - 9 December 2019. 

In Another Way of Looking at Love, Lynch explores the interconnectedness of all life forms and supports a renewal of relations between the natural and spiritual worlds. In some images, Lynch create points of connection with elements from the same species—Japanese barberry or burdock, for example—while for others, she combines multiple species, such as goldenrod and pokeweed or burning bush and pine trees. Points of connection create spaces where new realities can be envisioned. The depiction of unity, together with color and light, show the beauty and magic of the natural world.  

Lynch notes, “We are hardwired for connection and our elemental sameness unites us and transcends our apparent differences. Our wellness and the well-being of the world depend on healthy connections to each other and to the earth.” Borne of awe for the power of nature, Another Way of Looking at Love seeks to re-imagine the power of connection: to one another, to the planet, and to the generative possibilities of the moment.

About Janelle Lynch 

Based in New York, Janelle Lynch (born 1969) is an American large-format photographer with a 20-year career during which she has investigated themes of absence, presence, transcendence, and the life cycle through the landscapes and waterways of the United States, Mexico, and Spain. 

Lynch received an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts where she studied with Joel Sternfeld and Stephen Shore. In 2003, she completed the Master Class in Photography. From 2015-2018 Lynch studied perceptual drawing and painting with Graham Nickson at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture. Her photographs are in museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of the City of New York; New York Public Library; Brooklyn Museum; George Eastman Museum; and the New-York Historical Society.

She has three monographs published and her work has been shown internationally, including at the Museo Archivo de la Fotografía (Mexico City), the Southeast Museum of Photography (Daytona Beach, FL), and at the Newark Museum, Frankfurt Forum Fotografie, and the Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères. Lynch’s work has appeared in international publications and she is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography and a frequent guest lecturer.