The Honey Land Review Spring 2009 Volume 1, Issue 2
Brenden Work was born in 1988 and raised in Missoula, Montana. He is an undergraduate at Swarthmore College and a Comparative Literature major. His interest in photography and his passion for travel developed alongside each other during trips to Thailand, Scotland, and most recently Nepal and India, where these two photographs were born. "Monument" portrays one of hundreds of devotional stone piles at the sacred lake of Gosainkund, 14,000 feet high in the Langtang Range of the Himalayas north of Kathmandu. "Dune" is a shot of the major gnomon at Jantar Mantar, the astronomical playground built by Maharaja Jai Singh II in the city of Jaipur. Both pieces focus on a clean, serene composition and sharp divisions between light and shadow. More of his work can be found at www.worktree.org, where 15% of profits go to support the Natural Resource Defense Council.