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Two innovative and compelling artists are taking over ���޾�Ʒ����һ��’s (���޾�Ʒ����һ��) Instagram page - – and offering their unique and provocative insights into cultural landscapes and the world around us. We are always interested in discovering new ways to understand our shared landscape legacy, and since 2015, noted award-winning artists including Millicent Harvey, Scott Frances, Alex MacLean, and  have served as guest curators providing a week’s worth of enticing photographs. We been treated to images of landscapes that are sweeping, panoramic, mysterious, romantic, ethereal, and so much more. During each week-long takeover we go on thoughtfully curated journeys perhaps to rediscover places we already know and to be introduced to landscapes we didn’t know exist. Jonathan Ducrest is curating ���޾�Ʒ����һ��’s Instagram page today through December 11 and, in the new year, Erika Blumenfeld will guest curate January 25 – 29. Both were featured in 16th Annual Silent Auction. 

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Ducrest donated to ���޾�Ʒ����һ��’s silent auction for the first time this year. He was born and raised in Switzerland, where his interest in photography was ignited with a point-and-shoot camera he received from his parents. After moving to New York City in 1998, his subjects grew to include the city’s architecture while drawing parallels to his past work. Ducrest is posting on ���޾�Ʒ����һ�� Instagram now through Friday and plans on “sharing images from various locales around the world. I have a passion for architecture and landscape photography and especially empty or abandoned places.” Visit Ducrest’s website to view his vast portfolio:   

 says of herself in a ���޾�Ʒ����һ�� It Takes One profile: “I’m interested in the place where human culture and our natural environment connect and as a transdisciplinary artist and documentary photographer my recent work has focused on the cultural value of nature. Since 1998 my art has led me to investigate the physics of atmospheric and astronomic phenomena as well as the simple beauties and complex afflictions of our environment and ecologies. I have chronicled a range of subjects, including the cycles of solar and lunar light, bioluminescent marine organisms, the remote and prismatic landscape of Antarctica, climate disruption induced wildfires and other human-caused ecological challenges.” It’s fair to say that we can expect an invigorating week of posts from Erika January 25-29.  

Follow ���޾�Ʒ����һ�� on Instagram, along with our other social media outlets – Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn – as well as our YouTube channel. And be sure to follow Jonathan Ducrest, Erika Blumenfeld, and all of the other artists who have done Instagram takeovers and contributed to ���޾�Ʒ����һ��’s silent auctions.