A series of black and white photographs exploring the landscape of California by photographer Benjamin Young. Born, raised, and still based in Northern California, Young obtained his BFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His work falls into the realm of poetic documentary and focuses on his deep-rooted relationship to the California landscape.

“Having nearly a century of familial roots in Marin County, I often found myself imagining relatives traveling the same roads and noticing some version of the same gradual, seasonal shifts and minutiae in the landscape as I did while out making these photographs. Eternal Return is comprised of images made in and around my old home in Fairfax, on weekend drives to and from my childhood home in Sonoma County on Marin backroads, or on any of the countless day trips west I made while living there. Set against the lush backdrop of Marin where walls separating the domestic and natural worlds blur, this body of photographs explores connection to the landscape through themes of home, seasonal cycles, day & night, birth & death, ephemerality & memory.”

“Eternal Return” is currently on display at Woods Lowside in San Francisco until July 24th.