Relative Permanence
Relative Permanence is an ongoing series of double exposures that places cities within the scale of the natural world. Through layering and blending, I bring these environments into the same frame, allowing built structures and landscapes to coexist.
The work centers on scale and time. What we build in decades exists within terrain shaped over millions of years and beneath skies that extend far beyond a human lifetime.
The series moves between reality and imagination to shift perspective. It reflects on how we shape the world and how it shapes us in return, holding both admiration and humility. In doing so, it shifts the scale at which we see ourselves.
All images © 2026 Navid Baraty