Picea Photography is a project of Jarret Miles-Kroening. Miles-Kroening grew up in central Wisconsin surrounded by forest, farm fields, and the vast expanse of northern wilderness. Beginning photography at a young age, he has focused on creating images with traditional silver-based, black and white methods. In recent years his photography has focused on exploring the complex relationship between people and land in a region where violent colonialism has displaced Indigenous communities and radially altered the landscape through forestry, agriculture, and mineral exploitation. This compliments his education at the University of Wisconsin- Madison in Horticulture, where the impacts of agriculture and need for sustainable land practices drive his education. Projects such as Wisconsin State Parks and Walking Portraits extrapolate on the dynamic concepts of wilderness, human touch, and public lands. Others such as Flora and Farmhouse examine inhuman flowers and objects a through a human point of view, highlighting their complex "emotions" and personality.
Current works involve the portraiture of horticultural crops continued exploration of people/land dynamics building on the base of Walking Portraits.
Picea is the genus which Spruce Trees belong to, many of which are keystone species in the environments of the Northern Great Lakes.