World & Color: Mordor by Ryan Struck

The more I shot this film, the more questions I had about myself and the world around me. At first it was fun pointing the camera and pressing the shutter at anything green. It changed the landscape, it made colors wildly different.

Eventually, I would stare and watch the landscapes I wanted to photograph and ask myself “Is this scene really speaking to me? It is really worth pressing the shutter?” And so many times, I decided that it wasn’t. So many times, I would pull the dark slide, frame up the scene, focus and then not press the shutter. That spoke to me.