Understand how curiosity, experimentation and collaboration can improve and develop your approach to photographing the natural world.

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Projects are magical – Morag shares how this project began through conversations and time spent working with a forester and a soil scientist.

This sparked a curiosity about what might be drifting through the forest atmosphere – spores, pollen, dust and other fragments of life – and how a photographer might begin to capture or respond to something so elusive.

Using a mixture of traditional photography and more playful techniques such as intentional camera movement (ICM), Morag began exploring ways of working with the images to take them beyond the forest ecosystem.

Consider the value of working without fixed outcome, how slowing down, embracing uncertainty and allowing space for experimentation can influence both the creative process and the photographer’s relationship with the landscape.

Morag Paterson is a Scottish photographer whose practice is driven by curiosity and experimentation. Her recent work exploring forest environments has been developed through interdisciplinary collaboration and has been recognised through selection for the Earth Photo Awards, with exhibitions shown at the Royal Geographical Society in London and touring nationally across Forestry England and National Trust sites.