Landscape photographer Richard Serviss has been a resident of The Bronx, off and on, for the last two decades. Upon finishing art school, his initial interest was street photography. However he eventually became interested in the urban landscape and produced a series of hand-tinted prints which appeared in various group shows throughout New York City. In 2005, after discovering an abundance of nature exists in the city, he began a long term photo project with the working title, “Urban Nature: A New York City Landscape Study.” Working in similar manner as early 20th Century landscape photographers, he uses traditional view cameras and sheet film to capture his landscapes. Ten years after starting this project, he continues to be amazed at the amount of natural spaces in a city often associated with concrete and steel. Throughout the years, Richard Serviss has supported his photographic projects by working in a variety of photo related fields. He currently works as a photo researcher for a major publisher. He lives in The Bronx with his wife Frances and cat Chloe.

This website features a collection of my photography from 1978 to present. When I first became involved in photography, I almost immediately created photo projects to work on. Over the years, some of these projects turned into somewhat large collections. **Streets of Pittsburgh: 1979-1986** goes back to my photographic origins. Between 1979 and 1985 I roamed the streets of Pittsburgh photographing most anything that caught my eye. The early North Side street portraits reflect what I felt to be a largely ignored and somewhat forgotten segment of the city's population. **Urban Nature: A New York City Nature Study** is a project I started while living in the Northern Manhattan neighborhood of Inwood. In 2004 I began photographing Inwood Hill Park with a 4x5 field camera. The amount of nature in New York City is far more vast than most people realize. **Bronx Blues: Morning Walks in Van Cortlandt Park** — whenever I went for a morning walk in Van Cortlandt Park, it would often be foggy or misty. I decided the park, with its morning fog and mist, would be a great location for a series of sublime landscape photos. Despite my switch to digital cameras at the time, this project was shot entirely with a medium format film camera. **Flowers in the City** is a project I worked on in the mid-1990's. The prints from this series are gelatin silver prints hand printed in a wet darkroom and then painstakingly hand-tinted with Marshall's Photo Oils. *"The forest is my church."*