Still Life: A Photographer’s Journey through Grief and Gardening
Jane Fulton Alt
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Jane Fulton Alt’s Still Life: A Photographer’s Journey through Grief and Gardening considers grief through the slow, practical work of cultivation. Following the sudden death of her husband, Howard, Alt inherited his partially realised native garden, begun in response to his concern for climate change. What began as an act of stewardship became a sustained photographic and personal inquiry into loss, renewal and ecological responsibility.
The book brings together Alt’s colour photographs with essays by James Baraz, Doug Tallamy and W. M. Hunt, positioning the garden as both subject and process. Rather than treating grief as a closed narrative, Still Life traces how care, attention and repeated labour can reshape a life after rupture. The result is a measured reflection on mourning, resilience and the fragile continuities between human and natural worlds.
