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.

An artist adept at capturing the aftermath of tragedies, Gallery’s singular focus is often on the life after catastrophe, while recalling those lived before through his images of the detritus and remnants left behind.

Gallery’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His photographs are featured in public, private and corporate collections throughout the U.S., including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The New Orleans Museum of Art, and the George Eastman House.

Gallery’s work has been published widely, including 25 Under
25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers and his upcoming monograph, Tent Life: Haiti.

His photographs have also been featured in Mother Jones, Newsweek, Outside, and The New York Times Magazine.

A former Fulbright Fellow, Gallery is also the recipient of the Daniel Rosenberg Travel Grant. He is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Gallery lives between New York and the Caribbean.