Gina Dover-Jaques’s work explores the relationship between garden experts and the cultivated landscapes they study, interpret, and care for. Through a distinct analogue photographic methodology, specialists are photographed within the natural process of observation and assessment, allowing their professional engagement with the landscape to unfold authentically and without direction.

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Developed as a research-led, non-commercial collaborative practice, the work combines observational photography with reflective post-shoot questions devised by the artist, extending each encounter beyond the photographic moment and into a structured interpretive framework.

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The resulting articles form an editorial record of each photographic engagement, integrating observational imagery with reflective dialogue to articulate the layered relationship between expertise, care, and cultivated landscape.