Gohar Dashti, Untitled #2 from the series Home, 2017. Archival digital pigment print, artist’s proof 1/2, 313/8 x 47 3/16 inches (80 x 120 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery. © Gohar Dashti.
Second Nature
On view October 3, 2025 - April 5, 2026
Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene features images by 43 artists from around the world who have pushed technological boundaries and developed conceptual approaches to image-making that constitute a rupture in the traditions of the medium of photography. This transformation, which included the widespread use of digital technologies in the early 2000s, coincided with the emergence of the term Anthropocene. Artists used the new tools at their disposal to render a transformed world and developed a new visual language to capture it. By doing so, they created myriad approaches to representing the land, collectively reckoning with what it means to live on Earth in this age.
Second Nature is organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, and the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The Trustees of Reservations, Lincoln, Massachusetts. The exhibition is curated by Jessica May, Executive Director, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and Marshall N. Price, Chief Curator and Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.