Cig Harvey

Biography

Cig Harvey is a fine-art photographer and writer whose photographs and books appear in the permanent collections of museums such as the Library of Congress (New York), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Philadelphia Museum of Art, and more. Her latest book, Emerald Drifters (Monacelli, 2025), explores a life through color.

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PHOTOGRAPHY / Winter 2024

Beauty is the Only Language Worth Speaking

Photography and Essay by Cig Harvey

Deep inside our eyes, next to the dark velvet lake of the aqua vitreous, are cones and rods. The rods allow us to see in the gloaming, but only in grayscale. The cones are responsible for color, but they need light to work.

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