'Why Photograph Trees?" w/ Benjamin Swett @ New York Botanical Garden

'Why Photograph Trees?" w/ Benjamin Swett @ New York Botanical Garden
Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2025
Time: 4-5 PM
Location: Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY 10458
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The New York Botanical Garden hosts Benjamin Swett — the 2024 Larry Lederman Photography Fellow and author of The Picture Not Takenan essay collection published by NYRB in 2024 — for a discussion of his photography practice and its fixation on the trees of New York City. Joined in conversation by landscape ecologist, author of Mannahatta, and NYBG’s Vice President for Urban Conservation, Dr. Eric W. Sanderson, Swett will present the work he did in 2024 photographing the landscape of the New York Botanical Garden. 

This event is free and open to the public. It is made possible thanks to the support of Larry Lederman.

 

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