boat and oil slick in body of water

Oil Spill #12

Daniel Beltrá, 2010, digital chromogenic print, 40″ x 60″, © 2010, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

Daniel Beltrá

Daniel Beltrá captures the profound beauty and vulnerability of the natural world in his photographs of natural landscapes and wildlife. Primarily a landscape photographer, Beltrá combines painterly abstraction with the haunting details of an earthly paradise in peril. His sweeping aerial images invite us to soar over majestic fields of ice, water and earth, to experience the natural wonders of our planet, and to bear witness to the scars, and shocking scale, of environmental degradation. In his wildlife images, Beltrá captures the immediacy of trauma caused by oil spills, deforestation, desertification and climate change, and tells the stories of the feral victims of those tragedies. Over the past two decades, Beltrá’s work has taken him to all seven continents, including several expeditions to the Brazilian Amazon, the Arctic, the Southern Oceans and the Patagonian ice fields. The beauty he captures serves as a hopeful reminder of our planet’s greatest treasures, as well as an urgent plea to protect them from further harm.

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inkblot in the form of insect with wolf profiles in negative space
image of mountain with reflection in lake
fist that grows into a tree
pelicans covered in oil

Oil Spill #20

Daniel Beltrá, 2010, digital chromogenic print, 60″ x 48″, © 2010, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

rainforest trees projecting into body of water

Amazon Rainforest

Daniel Beltrá, 2012, digital chromogenic print, 48″ x 72″, © 2012, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

deforested amazon land

Amazon Rainforest

Daniel Beltrá, 2013, digital chromogenic print, 48″ x 72″, © 2013, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

deforested amazon land

Amazon

Daniel Beltrá, 2007, digital chromogenic print, 48″ x 72″, © 2007, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

mining residue in flooded rainforest

Indonesia Rainforest

Daniel Beltrá, 2009, digital chromogenic print, 48″ x 72″, © 2009, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

iceberg and ice fragments

Antarctica #2

Daniel Beltrá, 2007, digital chromogenic print, 40″ x 60″, © 2007, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

iceberg

Antarctica #1

Daniel Beltrá, 2007, digital chromogenic print, 48″ x 72″, © 2007, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

polar bear looking up at camera

Arctic #20

Daniel Beltrá, 2012, digital chromogenic print, 48″ x 72″, © 2012, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

abstract view of ice sheet with meltwater

Greenland #2

Daniel Beltrá, 2014, digital chromogenic print, 48″ x 72″, © 2014, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

aerial view of landscape of ice and volcanic soil

Iceland #11

Daniel Beltrá, 2014, digital chromogenic print, 48″ x 72″, © 2014, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

aerial view of landscape of ice and volcanic soil

Iceland #15

Daniel Beltrá, 2014, digital chromogenic print, 48″ x 72″, © 2014, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist

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