TITLE: White Silence

Photographed during a mountain snowstorm in Colorado, the image uses distance, atmosphere, and monochrome tonality to reduce the animal into a fragile presence within the landscape.

Rather than functioning as a traditional wildlife portrait, the photograph explores weather as an emotional environment- one defined by silence, ambiguity, and scale.

AUTHOR: Alex Zaitsev (United States)

Alex Zaitsev is a Colorado-based photographer whose work explores isolation, atmosphere, and the emotional scale of the American West.

Working primarily in remote desert and mountain environments, he uses weather, light, and restrained monochrome processing to create images that feel suspended between realism and memory.

His photographs often focus on silence, geological form, and small subjects overwhelmed by landscape and storm.

Through Flying Hare Editions, Zaitsev creates fine art landscape and wildlife imagery shaped by mood, tension, and spatial ambiguity.