I started having the dreams again last night. The dreams consist of me sleeping on and in the destruction, the debris of people’s lives. It feels almost like I am surrounded by the devastation but more so by death. Not just human death, but something larger that I can’t place my finger on.

Wyatt Gallery’s evocative photographs of Sri Lanka after the catastrophic Indonesian tsunami and New Orleans in hurricane Katrina’s wake, capture the “strange beauty” of destruction and the forces of nature. A graduate from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Gallery received the Daniel Rosenberg Travel Grant in 1997 and the Fulbright Fellowship in 1999.

Gallery’s work has been featured in PDN magazine a number of times, including PDN’s 30 under 30 and Rising Star, and Remnants: After The Storm, his most recent series, has garnered numerous awards, including PDN magazine’s 2006 Photo Annual and PDN’s 2006 World In Focus competition, American Photography 22.

Gallery’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad. His photographs are featured in public and private collections throughout the U.S., including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the George Eastman House.

Gallery’s work has been published widely, including Black, A Celebration of A Culture, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, and 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers. His photography has also been featured in Mother Jones, Newsweek, and The New York Times Magazine.