Jon McCormack's 'Patterns' Reveals Nature's Hidden Geometries
Photographer Jon McCormack's new monograph 'Patterns: Art of the Natural World', published by Damiani, explores natural geometries from microscopic diatoms to aerial landscapes. The book features images from Iceland, Kenya, Botswana, Australia, Canada, and Svalbard, captured between 2014 and 2025 using seven or eight different cameras, including an iPhone whose software McCormack helped engineer at Apple. Proceeds benefit Vital Impacts, a women-led nonprofit founded by Ami Vitale supporting conservation. McCormack describes the book as 'a visual poem to our planet.'
Key facts
- Published by Damiani in 2026
- Features photographs from 2014 to 2025
- Locations include Iceland, Kenya, Botswana, Australia, Canada, Svalbard
- McCormack used 7-8 different cameras including an iPhone
- McCormack helped engineer iPhone camera software at Apple
- Proceeds benefit Vital Impacts nonprofit
- Vital Impacts was founded by photographer Ami Vitale
- McCormack calls himself a 'pattern photographer'
Entities
Artists
- Jon McCormack
- Ami Vitale
- Georgia O'Keefe
- Eileen Mignoni
Institutions
- Damiani
- Vital Impacts
- Apple
- Petapixel
- National Geographic
- Bookshop.org
- Damiani Books
Locations
- Iceland
- Kenya
- Botswana
- Australia
- Canada
- Svalbard
- Vatnajökull glacier
- Lake Magadi
- Okavango Delta
- Chilcotin River
- Northern California
- North Atlantic
- Northern Territory
- Queensland, Australia
- Bay Area
- California
- Yosemite