THE SHORT STORY: TreeSpirit photographer Jack Gescheidt here. With sadness I relay news of today’s events from the Memorial Oak Grove in Berkeley, site of two of my TreeSpirit Project photos. At 6AM today, Tuesday, June 17, the university (UC Berkeley) sent in over 40 police officers and hired arborists to remove structures and cut …
Filmmaker Tamara Gurbis has recorded a few of the larger TreeSpirit Project photographic events in 2006 and 2007. She and I have concluded that the process of making each TreeSpirit photo—all populated with volunteer participants—is a great story worth telling on video. So what began as a series of still photographs depicting human interdependence with …