The result of a commission from Fernbank Museum to document Fernbank, a 65-acre old-growth forest in Atlanta, during a period of restoration. Essick photographed the forest for two years to produce a personal vision of a natural ecosystem that can coexist with a large metropolitan city. With an essay by Janisse Ray, whose work grapples with the beauty, intricacy and heartbreak of the biosphere, telling how Emily Harrison worked to preserve the forest from the 1930s.