, costa rica, peru, botswana, kenya, and tanzania to work in serengeti plains and down in the okavango delta. - for the life project, i set myself a challenge which was to make images that could serve as stepping stones on a journey through time. and by talking with biologists and geologists, i began to get a sense of where i could go and what i could photograph. the story of life starts in space. our energy becomes matter, turning into shapes over time. that takes us from the big bang to four and a half billion years ago when the earth was solidified before there was any life, and we'd show the interactions between the five classic elements that greek philosophers originally recognized, fire, earth, water, air, and space. we worked around live volcanoes 'cause that's where life may have begun. and, certainly, they're symbolic for the way the earth began. - we traveled to the big island of hawaii and flew a helicopter over the kilauea volcano, and it started to erupt. so we were able to get out there with geologists on the slope of the erupting volcano and document it. - the lava is overflow

, costa rica, peru, botswana, kenya, and tanzania to work in serengeti plains and down in the okavango delta. - for the life project, i set myself a challenge which was to make images that could serve as stepping stones on a journey through time. and by talking with biologists and geologists, i began to get a sense of where i could go and what i could photograph. the story of life starts in space. our energy becomes matter, turning into shapes over time. that takes us from the big bang to four and a half billion years ago when the earth was solidified before there was any life, and we'd show the interactions between the five classic elements that greek philosophers originally recognized, fire, earth, water, air, and space. we worked around live volcanoes 'cause that's where life may have begun. and, certainly, they're symbolic for the way the earth began. - we traveled to the big island of hawaii and flew a helicopter over the kilauea volcano, and it started to erupt. so we were able to get out there with geologists on the slope of the erupting volcano and document it. - the lava is overflow