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The Trail, Cleared

Posted on June 30, 2026, 3:36 pm, by QT Luong, under Projects.
(click on images to enlarge) Across the country, cities are reclaiming marginal lands, often in places where unhoused people have lived. The Trail, Cleared examines what happens when ecological recovery and human displacement occupy the same ground. The work grows out of my long engagement with the Coyote Creek Trail, a corridor I photographed repeatedly […]
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Time in The Trail

Posted on May 29, 2026, 3:15 pm, by QT Luong, under Projects.
https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/time-in-the-trail The Coyote Creek Trail has become part of my own geography. I ran there. I walked there. I returned again and again, now close to two hundred times. That repetition changed what I saw. At first, the trail appeared to be a narrow band of nature running through San Jose: trees, grasses, water, birds. […]
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The Trail‘s Evolution and Artistic Lineage

Posted on October 29, 2025, 12:22 pm, by QT Luong, under Projects.
https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/the-trails-evolution-and-artistic-lineage In 2014, my brother-in-law Nhon—a dedicated bicyclist—first introduced us to the Coyote Creek Trail. The photo from that first outing pictures my family: my son up ahead, my wife, and Nhon. We returned occasionally after that, weaving small loops together, moving through the corridor more as participants than as observers. Back then it felt […]
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The Coyote Creek Trail Project

Posted on January 28, 2025, 5:20 pm, by QT Luong, under Projects.
http://www.terragalleria.com/blog/coyote-creek-trail-project After spending a quarter-century photographing the vast, iconic landscapes of America’s national parks, I turned my attention to the landscapes of my own city, San Jose, California. This shift in my practice mirrors an evolution in environmental thought: from conserving distant wilderness to embracing an inclusive ecology that acknowledges the complex, intertwined relationship between […]
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