Landscape photography rooted in solitary wonder.
My story
Emma Forrest is a Sydney-based fine art landscape and nature photographer whose practice is rooted in solitary wonder, the particular feeling of moving through a wild place alone, unhurried, waiting for the world to reveal something only you will ever see.
Since turning her lens to the natural world in 2020, Emma has built a body of work that takes her most often into the Blue Mountains, the Oberon highlands, and the alpine regions of NSW, landscapes defined by mist, snow, ancient forest, open skies, and a quiet that feels almost mythological. Influenced by Scottish folklore and the emotional atmosphere of classic fantasy, she doesn't document places so much as bear witness to them, capturing not just what a scene looks like but how it felt to stand inside it.
Emma holds a Certificate IV in Photoimaging from TAFE NSW and has refined her practice through workshops with leading Australian landscape photographers including Ken Duncan and Cam Blake. She brings eight years of experience as a portrait photographer alongside deep professional knowledge of printing and presentation through her work as owner of Prints by Emma and co-founder and director of Three Edge Framing and Gallery, established in 2023. She is also an artist with House of Curiosity, an artist-led curatorial concept that champions instinct-driven practice and builds pathways between artists, collectors, and designers.
Her work has been exhibited across multiple group and open exhibitions including In Focus Women (2022), Twenty Five (2024), Splash (2024), Kaleidoscope (2025), Head On Add On (2025), and Hillvale Photo Trophy (2025). She has been published in three photography books: the In Focus Women 2021 and In Focus Women 2022 collections, and the Head On Add On 2025 catalogue. Awards include Highly Commended and Commended in the Landscape and Environment category at The Capture Awards 2025.
Artist statement
My practice begins with a feeling, the particular stillness that arrives when you move far enough into a wild place that the rest of the world falls away.
I photograph snow-covered forests, ancient moss-draped trees, and the quiet margins of landscapes most people pass through rather than stop inside. These are places that carry their own atmosphere, their own logic. I am drawn to them the way you are drawn into a story, with the sense that something is about to happen just around the next bend.
My images are not documents. They are invitations. I want the person looking at them to feel what I felt standing there, the cold air, the silence, the private certainty that you are the only witness to this exact moment in this exact place.
Wonder is not a childish thing. It is the most honest response to a world still capable of surprising us. That is what I am trying to preserve.
Curated selection
The majority of my work sits somewhere between the intimate and the expansive. Quiet, detailed scenes alongside wide views that give you room to breathe. When I head out on location, the first thing I'm looking for is light. Not the dramatic kind necessarily, but the interesting kind. The soft, directional light that pools in unexpected places and makes a scene feel alive.
I shoot mostly by season and mood. I'm drawn to cold mornings, overcast skies, and the kind of weather most people are heading home from. A beach just before a storm rolls in. Snow falling in a quiet pine forest with no one else around. These are the conditions where atmosphere builds, and atmosphere is what I'm chasing.
I bring eight years of portrait photography into how I see landscape. That background taught me patience, the importance of waiting for the right moment, and how much a single shift in light can change everything.
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““When you go out there (into the wilderness), you don’t get away from it all, you get back to it all. You come home to what’s important. You come home to yourself.”
- Peter Dombrovskis