Landscape photographer Vera Conley taking close up picture of ice formations on an ice cap in Iceland.

We live in an age of relentless complexity — fragmented, accelerated, and increasingly estranged from stillness. My work is a response to that condition.

Drawing from landscapes, architecture, and the elemental world, I work across long exposure, infrared, and experimental processes to reveal what ordinary perception cannot access. Through abstraction and reductionism, I distill chaotic elements into cohesive visual narratives — finding the underlying geometry, quiet, and structure that persists beneath the surface of volatile or complex subjects. Yet harmony and order are not always offered freely; at times, the work deliberately introduces tension — an unexpected disruption that unsettles the viewer just enough to provoke curiosity, challenge preconceptions, and open the door to a deeper reexamination of what they thought they understood.

Time is central to my practice. Long exposure is not merely a technique; it is a conceptual position. By compressing duration, I dissolve the incidental and render the transient permanent — producing images that exist outside of any single moment. The result is work that is simultaneously rooted in a specific place and liberated from it.

This tension between the fixed and the fluid, the man-made and the elemental, runs throughout my subjects — from the ancient shores of Lake Biwa to Iceland's glacial terrain to the calculated geometries of modernist architecture. In each, I seek the point where complexity resolves into clarity, and where the viewer is invited to pause, look inward, and reconsider what they thought they already knew.

The work culminates in fine art printmaking, where image becomes object. The print is not a reproduction — it is the final act of the work itself, where visual and tactile dimensions converge, and the image becomes an object worthy of sustained attention, earning its place on a wall.

AWARDS

2025 Architecture Masterprize - Educational Exterior, “Salk Institute” WINNER

2025 Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris - “Brioso” BRONZE

2024 Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris - “Ferro Ignition” GOLD

2024 Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris - “Autumn’s Last Embrace” & “Into the Void” Honorable Mention

2024 International Photography Awards - “Solitude” & “Autumn’s Last Embrace” Official Selection

2023 Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris - “Ferro Torch” SILVER

2023 Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris - “House of Glass” Honorable Mention

2023 International Photography Awards - “Salk Institute” Official Selection Honorable Mention

2022 International Photography Awards - “Window View” Official Selection Honorable Mention

2022 International Photography Awards - “Rise” & “Iridescence” Official Selection

2021 Minimalist Photography Awards - “Signal” 1st PLACE, Long Exposure Photographer of the Year

2021 Minimalist Photography Awards - Street Category, “Party of Five” Honorable Mention

2021 International Photography Awards - “Totality”, “Departure”, “Uprising”, “Nishi” Honorable Mention

2020 Tokyo International Foto Awards - “Kizuna” SILVER

2019 ND Awards - “Kizuna” & “Nishi” SILVER STAR Award

2019 ND Awards - “Signal” & “A Path to Infinity” Honorable Mention

EXHIBITions

2025 Mar 30-Apr 20 - House of Lucie, Ostuni, Italy: Px3 and State of the World Exhibition

2025 Mar 12-22 - House of Lucie, Athens, Greece: Px3 and State of the World Exhibition,

2024 Nov 8-Nov 29 - PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont: Landscape Gallery Exhibition, Juried by Ann Jastrab

2024 Nov 5-9 - Galerie 24b, Paris, France: Px3 and State of the World Exhibition

2024 Apr 20-Jun 2 - Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, California: Members’ 2024 International Juried Online Group Exhibition, Juried by Catherine Couturier

2023 Dec - Art Basel Miami, Miami, Florida: Stratosphere, Curated by Sabet

2022 Jun 28-July 3 - Adelia Art Gallery, Liverpool, England: NFT Liverpool, Curated by Reuben Wu

2022 Jun 20 - Time Square, New York City: Temporal Vision, Curated by Vizmesh

2021 Nov 1-4 - Edison Hall, New York City: Mask Ephemera Exhibition and Spatial Group Exhibit curated by SearchLight

2021 Sep 8-12 - Plaxall Gallery, New York City: ARS Electronica Festival Garden Group Exhibit

2021 July-Dec - Spatial AR Gallery, Beijing, China: Stratosphere International Continual Group Exhibit

2021 Jul 31-Aug 8 - Neal Digital Gallery, Beijing, China: NFT Art Week Group Exhibit

2020 July - Konditorei, California: Solo Exhibition

PUBLICATIONS

2024 November - Photoplace Gallery Exhibition Catalog Hardcover - Cover Photo

2023 August - Px3 2023 e-Book, “Ferro Torch”

2021 January - Minimalist Photography Awards Annual Book 2021, “Signal”

2021 August 5 - My Modern Met, “Signal”

2021 August 4 - TechRadar, “Signal”

2021 July 29 - 121 Clicks, “Signal”

2021 July - Design Your Trust, “Signal”

2020 January - LEMag Long Exposure Photography Magazine, Issue No. 16 “Beyond”

2019 January - AWAKE Photography Magazine

2017 March - Inspire Digital or Not Fine Art Photography Magazine, “Peering Through”