A three-year project documenting the deserts of Nevada and Utah, made largely without other people present.
Elena Duarte spent long stretches alone to make this work, and it shows: there is no performance in these images, only exposure.
Basin at NoonElena Duarte, 2025Archival pigment print, 90 × 60 cmBlack Rock Desert, no shade for eleven miles.Salt LineElena Duarte, 2025Archival pigment print, 60 × 75 cmThe boundary between salt flat and sky, walked for two days.Single Figure, Distance UnknownElena Duarte, 2024Archival pigment print, 60 × 60 cmSelf-portrait, camera left on a fifteen-minute timer.