TITLE: Forest roads

This photographic series explores eight mid-forest roads captured through infrared imaging, revealing landscapes that exist beyond ordinary perception. Familiar paths are transformed into luminous corridors where foliage glows, shadows deepen, and the boundary between natural and surreal becomes blurred. The roads—symbols of passage, direction, and human presence—cut quietly through dense forests, appearing both inviting and unsettling in their altered tonal reality.

Infrared light exposes what the eye cannot see, shifting attention from literal documentation to atmosphere and emotion. Vegetation becomes radiant, skies turn dark and weightless, and the roads themselves feel suspended in time, as if leading toward unknown destinations. Each image presents a different rhythm of the forest: narrow and enclosing, open and expansive, straight or subtly winding.

Together, the eight photographs form a contemplative journey about movement through nature, perception, and the unseen layers of the environment. The series invites viewers to slow down, to reconsider familiar landscapes, and to imagine the forest not as a static place, but as a living, shifting space shaped by light beyond the visible spectrum.

AUTHOR: Grzegorz Król (Poland)

I’ve been immersed in amateur photography for over 15 years, driven by curiosity more than consistency. My work began with a strong focus on landscape photography and gradually expanded into aerial imagery, where I enjoy discovering familiar places from unfamiliar perspectives.

While I’m deeply drawn to the natural world, I tend to get bored repeating the same ideas or visual formulas. That restlessness pushes me to constantly experiment, try new techniques, and explore different ways of seeing. For me, photography is less about refining a single style and more about continuous learning and creative exploration.

Recently, I’ve been working with infrared photography, using it to transform ordinary landscapes into something more surreal and unexpected. I’ve also started introducing people into my landscape work, adding a human presence that brings scale, story, and contrast to wide, open scenes.

Whether I’m shooting from the ground, from the air, or through unconventional spectrums of light, my approach remains the same: to stay curious, avoid repetition, and keep discovering new ways to see and interpret the world around me.