Fergus Carmichael uses photography as a visual language to translate thought, emotion, and lived experience into images that are both seen and felt. His practice explores the fluid relationship between self and environment, focusing on identity, queer ecologies, landscape, and the queer male nude particularly the spaces these bodies have historically been denied or excluded from.
Working through self-portraiture in landscapes tied to key moments of his growth from boyhood to manhood, Carmichael reflects on mortality and permanence. Yet these gestures of presence are also acts of reclamation. By placing his own body within environments traditionally coded as pastoral, heroic, or heteronormative, he challenges inherited narratives of who belongs in nature and in art history.
Influenced by pictorialism and working across digital, cyanotype, projection, and photomontage, he embraces processes that emphasise tangibility, fragility, and trace. His work invites introspection while asserting that queer presence is not peripheral but embedded within the landscapes that endure. Each image becomes both meditation and intervention a quiet yet insistent refusal to disappear.