Longwood GardensCase study · Architecture, landscape and portraits
A long-standing relationship with Longwood Gardens: its architecture and landscape through the seasons, and the people who work there.
Landscape and gardens
Main Fountain Garden
Water garden at dusk
Conservatory interior with hanging orchids
Visitors on the meadow boardwalk
Family on a wooden bridge
Child among pink gerbera daisies
People
Portrait with a bouquet
Archivist with a ledger
Portrait in the potting shed
Portrait
Craft and teaching
Metalworker with stock
Engineer in the boiler room
Blacksmith at the forge
Student gardeners in waders in a pool
Building
Staff on a construction site
Gardener on a lift among hanging plants
West ConservatoryWest Conservatory, 2024
The relationship
Daniel Traub has photographed Longwood Gardens over many years and in every season, on large-format film and digitally: the conservatories and their planting, the gardens and meadows, the buildings old and new, and portraits of the gardeners and staff. The new West Conservatory, which opened in 2024, is one chapter of that work.
West Conservatory
Architectural photographs of the West Conservatory: the glass structure, its planting and the building in its landscape, made across changing light.
How the photographs are used
The photographs are used by the gardens across press, publications and their own communications.
ClientLongwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
SubjectArchitecture, landscape, portraits
YearOngoing