Ivan Butorac"My Own Private Idaho"

"My Own Private Idaho" – 40x60

A photograph from the Ethereal series, shot with a Hasselblad Camera within Joshua Tree National Park. This work transforms the desert landscape using controlled color light introduced at night, creating scenes suspended between reality and illusion—cinematic moments that feel staged, dreamlike, and timelessly still.

Available in two editions:

Print Edition of 7 – $3,600.00
Fine art Baryta paper

Lightbox Edition of 5 – $6,500.00
Illuminated presentation

The Ethereal series reimagines familiar terrain as otherworldly visions. Rather than documenting the desert as it appears, these photographs explore how light shapes perception, memory, and experience. Joshua trees emerge as quiet protagonists beneath vast star-filled skies, where color becomes mood and wonder becomes the subject. Each image exists in that suspended space between presence and illusion—familiar yet dreamlike, captured and transformed.