Greg Dohler is a photographer who creates surrealist visions with elements drawn from thousands of images from his long career in journalism. Extracting singular elements of decaying objects, desolate landscapes, solitary figures, animals, and street scenes from Baltimore and across the world, Dohler digitally recombines them to create images drawn from his dreams and subconscious. Figures appear to be out of place or even disoriented as if attempting to comprehend the changing world around them while natural elements and the landscape represent the cycle of life. Dohler’s work shares a legacy with Jerry Uelsmann’s surreal black-and-white photographs of seamlessly combined elements as well as the filmic scenarios found in the photographs of Gregory Crewdson. The work explores themes of disorientation, impermanence, and the beauty and power of the natural world. In them viewers may find a way to acceptthe beauty inherent in the ephemerality of everything.