Doreen McGunagle’s selected bodies of work form an evolving visual study of the natural world—moving between aerial abstraction, intimate wildlife encounters, expansive landscapes, and environments shaped by water, geology, climate, and time.
While each series has its own visual language and focus, together they explore a central idea: that Earth’s ecosystems are not isolated places, but interconnected living systems defined by beauty, resilience, vulnerability, and relationship.
Viewed from above, coral reefs reveal themselves as living architecture— intricate patterns shaped by water, light, movement, and time. This series explores their beauty, complexity, and fragility from an aerial perspective.
Explore the SeriesAn ongoing study of environments where beauty, resilience, and vulnerability converge—from coral reefs and coastal waters to mountains, wildlife habitats, and glacial landscapes.
Explore the SeriesThrough moments of protection, trust, companionship, and quiet connection, this series explores the relationships that connect wildlife to one another and to the environments upon which they depend.
Explore the SeriesA black-and-white fine-art journey through America’s protected landscapes, reflecting on preservation as both a legacy inherited and a responsibility carried forward.
Coastlines, reefs, waterways, kelp forests, and shifting tides become compositions of pattern, color, texture, and movement when seen from above, revealing structures often invisible at ground level.
Explore the SeriesFrom mountain systems and ancient forests to wetlands, coastlines, and open wilderness, these photographs explore places shaped by water, weather, geology, atmosphere, and time.
Explore the SeriesThese bodies of work are individual chapters within a larger investigation of Earth’s fragile ecosystems and the relationships that sustain them.
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