The Last Landscape imagines a world in which human civilization has disappeared.

Rather than depicting the moment of destruction itself, the series looks toward what might remain afterward: traces of human presence, altered landscapes, and a natural world continuing without us.

In Western traditions, the end of civilization is often imagined as an apocalypse—a final rupture in which history reaches its conclusion. Eastern thought offers another possibility: destruction is not necessarily an ending, but part of a continuing cycle of transformation, disappearance, and return.

These two ways of understanding time meet within the series. Human structures gradually lose their meaning, while nature continues to change, absorb, and reclaim what has been left behind.

The photographs therefore do not attempt to predict the future. They ask instead how permanent we believe our civilization to be.

If humanity disappears, is it the end of the world—or simply the end of a world?

Incineration