Swiss-born Luca Marziale (BFA 2012 Photography) has lived amidst London's urban sprawl for a few years now, but his landscape photographs are firmly rooted in the otherworldly. Shot with a macro lens, they zoom in on unfamiliar terrains from around the globe, with abstract, trippy results. His images, he says, are about "getting one step closer to the land. They're windows to landscapes that the majority of people won't venture to."
A trip during Marziale's SVA years to Yosemite National Park in California to explore the absence of man inspired his nature-focused style. He soon became interested in different types of bacteria and the "micro landscapes" they could create. These scenes are the opposite of "the trap of the postcard image," he says. He wanted to make work that isn't obvious, instead of printing photos "where you look at a landscape and immediately get what you're seeing."

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