Luke Hayes’ Poignant Imagery Of Mysteriously Dead Oak Trees
- Name
- Luke Hayes
- Project
- Dead Oaks
- Words
- Steph Wade
The new personal project by London-based photographer Luke Hayes is titled ‘Dead Oaks’: a series of eerie landscapes engulfed by mist that feature a group of dead oak trees.
“No one really knows why this group of trees died”, explains Hayes. “It could be due to a stream of salt
water from the nearby estuary”, he says, or perhaps something a little more morbid: parasitic organisms or what scientists refer to as ‘Sudden Oak Death’, a disease that infects oaks through their trunks. “Whatever the reason, they create an extraordinary landscape”, Hayes continues.All images © Luke Hayes