Ruta Kalmane Saksens

My personal work focuses on animal and nature photography, involving different photographic approaches and often including hand-made paper from organic materials.

What happens to leaves
When they fall off trees?

This photographically illustrated book created primarily for children audience tells an unusual rhyming story of a northern red oak tree leaf that seeks an answer to the question what happens to leaves when they fall off trees.

The Park Behind My Backyard

Putting in spotlight Venserpark, a place where nature tells stories to those who listen, this project looks at the natural world and environment of an urban park area.

Hortus Venserparcum

Hortus Venserparcum is a hand-made book combining photography and hand-made paper, developed as a Final project for an artisan paper-making course.

I See You

Involving volunteer participants, this project connects animal photography and poetry.

Human-Canine Bond