雪国 — Yukiguni, Japanese for Snow Country, is a body of work made over five winters in the mountains of central Honshu, where Siberian storms cross the Sea of Japan and bury the landscape under some of the heaviest snowfall on earth. Working in black and white, Scott Rinckenberger distills the alpine environment to its essentials — line, texture, negative space — finding the quiet geometry that winter leaves behind when everything else is stripped away. These are images of snow as both architect and eraser, of fragile birch and bamboo against savage alpine terrain, of a landscape that rewards stillness and patience as much as it demands endurance. Read Scott's full artist statement →