Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet, Harvey continues her personal study of sensory experience, focusing on the ephemeral nature of light, pigment, and vision. These latest photographs are lush tableaux of her signature subjects—flora, cakes, domestic interiors, and the human figure in landscape— accompanied by prose vignettes on the science and art of color, written in a vibrant, intimate style. Featuring an afterword by Ocean Vuong, Emerald Drifters is a catalog of pleasures and heartbreaks, and “an urgent call to live.”
Photographer and writer Cig Harvey’s new work, Emerald Drifters, is a poetic, richly saturated exploration of life through color.