A Slice of Silence: The Photography of Nathan Wirth

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This collection of monochrome photographs by Nathan Wirth includes long exposure seascapes, infrared landscapes, self portraits, architecture, and zenscapes of the Pacific Northwest intermingled with poetry and essays by Galen Garwood, Sam Green, Jane Hirshfield, Charles Johnson, Daphne Marlatt, Paul Nelson, Red Pine, David Pollard, Norman Schaeffer, Gary Snyder, Joseph Stroud, and Peter Weltner.

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Nathan Wirth is a self-learned photographer who attempts to photograph silence. For the past few years, Wirth has been studying and integrating into his work Japanese traditions of Zen, rock gardens, ma, and calligraphy as well as the transience, impermanence, and imperfections of wabi-sabi. After living in San Francisco for the first forty-four years of his life, Wirth moved to Marin County and currently makes his living teaching English Composition at City College of San Francisco. Wirth is represented by the Great Highway Gallery in San Francisco. You can view his work at https://sliceofsilence.com/photography/