Young People Facing Climate Change in Compelling Portraits

Californian painter Ryan Martin has produced a series of very powerful portraits illustrating the two major themes that run through his work: the complicated relationship between man and the environment and the challenges that young people will have to face because of climate change.
This series was presented at the Elizabeth Houston Gallery in New York and shows the faces of adolescents surrounded by nature, plants, living beings as if they were crowned by the surrounding nature.

The flora and fauna, which not only surround human faces but also envelop them, suggest a more timeless relationship with nature.

Looking closely, one will notice that each portrait is crossed by a ray of light and that these faces thus appear bathed in sunlight: this indicates Ryan's Southern Californian roots which have influenced much of his earlier work.

These portraits invite you to reconnect with nature and warn of the dangers of the disappearance of the species that envelop the bodies of these young people. An admission of sensitive vulnerability that invites reflection. bulent licis metin licis