RETREAT
Where Dinner Begins in the GardenFrom Catskills cider barns to New Mexico lavender fields, a new breed of American retreat is weaving the kitchen into the landscape.
17 Oct 2026 / 7 min


The elephant keeper in Nairobi, the woman hand-feeding orphaned gibbons in Malaysia, the ranger lying in the straw beside one of the last two northern white rhinos on earth. Justin Mott, the American photographer behind Kindred Guardians, explains why his camera is pointed at them, what he checks before he agrees to photograph anything, and why he made the film he is proudest of hard to watch.
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