The last bird song is a meditation on environmental damage told through three recurring motifs: the bird, the leafless tree, and the fallen leaf. Across this series of photographic-based works, she returns to these symbols with quiet intensity, using them to ask what it means to witness nature’s decline – and what we lose when memory replaces presence.

Materiality is crucial. The works are printed on metallic fine art canvas, stretched and mounted like traditional paintings. The surface holds a painterly nuance that reflects her desire to bridge the photographic process with a more tactile tradition.

Shamani Surendran describes herself as a nature photographer. Nature is defined by constant change – seasons, weather, changing light throughout the day. For her the creative power of Photography lies in capturing a unique moment, one that can never to be repeated, different from the time before and different from the time ahead.