The natural world around us, especially the realm of true Wilderness, has the beauty and power to astound and move all of us. In an increasingly mechanized and alienating artificial environment in which we spend so much of our time, any glimpse of the natural world acts as a soothing breath of fresh air. My aim as a photographer is to impart a sense that there is a world of true Wilderness that is out there, waiting to be experienced.

Unfortunately the natural world is under siege. It’s no longer responsible to escape the pressures of our urban existence for a period and then turn our backs on a landscape that is threatened. I feel strongly that wherever you experience Wilderness you need to help protect it just as it has helped renew you. Whether you choose to help by joining a local organization, or a national one such as the Sierra Club or Wilderness Society, or even if it’s gathering your friends to help pick up trash in your favorite hiking locale, you MUST do something to help these endangered places.

I have been professionally photographing Wilderness since 1978. Though I have photographed many Wilderness landscapes throughout North America, the emphasis of my work has been the canyons of Southern Utah. By focusing for so long and hard on one region, I have been able to get into some truly remote areas. Some of my photographs are of areas that no one on foot has seen for over 600 years. Being in a truly wild landscape is at the core of what I’m trying to impart. At the same time I delight in challenging the viewer’s perspective on size, color, and perspective itself.

All of these images were taken onto film (how quaint) in natural light without the use of colored filters.

My work has been published in a variety of books and journals including:
Wilderness at the Edge, by the Utah Wilderness Coalition
Canyon Country Bridges, by Fran Barnes
Utah’s Unprotected Wilderness, Gibbs Smith publisher
Canyoneering 2, by Steve Allen,
University of Utah Press
High Country News

I hope you’ve enjoyed my work and are inspired to visit some Wilderness and help protect it.

Harvey’s images are printed on Fujiflex Crystal Archive Printing Material. Fujiflex is comparable to Cibachrome. Characteristics of Fujiflex prints are image clarity and stability, superior gray balance, tonality and color purity. The process is more environmentally safe than Cibachrome, as well as being an archival process able to produce critical accuracy to the original.

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