OPENING RECEPTION MAY 22ND

Artist Show Statement:

Having nearly a century of familial roots in Marin County, I often found myself imagining relatives traveling the same roads and noticing some version of the same gradual, seasonal shifts and minutiae in the landscape as I did while out making these photographs. Eternal Return is comprised of images made in and around my old home in Fairfax, on weekend drives to and from my childhood home in Sonoma County on Marin backroads, or on any of the countless day trips west I made while living there. Set against the lush backdrop of Marin where walls separating the domestic and natural worlds blur, this body of photographs explores connection to the landscape through themes of home, seasonal cycles, day & night, birth & death, ephemerality & memory.

Bio:

Benjamin Young is a photographer born, raised and still based in Northern California. He obtained a BFA in photography in 2025 at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. His personal practice primarily based in B&W film photography and silver gelatin printing. His work falls into the realm of poetic documentary. He has a deep rooted relationship to the California landscape and often focuses his work on that relationship.