Between 2002 and 2012, Elaine Lazarus spent her summers in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, photographing the landscape and people around her. The photographs move through the Northwoods the way memory moves — through repetition, texture, and unexpected encounters. Trees, reflections, pathways, and shorelines repeatedly organize the frame, long before branching structures became central to her paintings. These works helped shape an ongoing exploration of perception, identity, environment, and the relationships between people and place.