Michael Lundgren creates photographs that challenge our perception of reality. Drawn to the hallucinatory qualities of the natural world, he ventures deep into the wilder places of the Americas, searching for a hidden presence embedded in the land. 

His new book, Glass Mountain, is an uneasy meditation on transformation and the eerie sentience of the inanimate. These photographs depict places that seem to exist beyond the field of time—where stones hold memory, the earth hums with a silent awareness, and landscapes confront us with their stark, unsettling beauty. 

Through Glass Mountain, Lundgren dismantles the notion of nature as a fixed ideal. Instead, he asks us to see the Earth in a constant state of becoming.

“As humans, we once looked to the sun, the stars, and the moon as maps. We saw the planet as our home, inseparable from our own existence. We told our stories through almanacs, songlines, and paintings on the walls. But many of us now live by a different set of guides. My work is a contemplation of this shift away from an Earth-centered mythology.” — Michael Lundgren