08/05/2025
Our favorite photo magician 🪄 will be speaking online about his upcoming Okefenokee Swamp 🐊 photography book ⚡️Trembling Earth⚡️ this coming Tuesday, August 12 at 11 am EST! .impacts is hosting this lecture and if this amazing woman-led non-profit isn’t already on your radar, definitely check them out—they spotlight the world’s most influential wilderness and environment photographers and do so much more. If you want to join in and maybe hear some of David’s magic tricks (no promises there), then the Zoom invite is linked in our profile (or just message us here, and we will happily send you a link to register!).
David’s book publishes this fall with !
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And we love this blurb from Vital Impacts:
David Walter Banks doesn’t just make photographs, he transforms the familiar into something otherworldly. He sees straight through the surface of things and reimagines the everyday, revealing moments of magic and mystery in places we thought we already knew. Whether through stylized portraiture or deeply personal documentary work, David has a gift for turning the world on its head and inviting us to look closer.
A self-proclaimed “swamp creature,” David brings both heart and artistry to his long-form storytelling. In this session, he’ll take us behind the scenes of Trembling Earth, his three-year odyssey through Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, a place he renders as both endangered landscape and dreamlike world. He’ll share the lessons, doubts, and discoveries that shaped the project, and offer honest insights into finding your own creative voice in the process of long-term storytelling.