The International Center of Photography (ICP) celebrates its second triennial with the Ecotopia exhibit, focusing on the relation and correlation between nature and humankind. Whether browsing through or intensely analyzing the photographs, each step is an adventure into a different point of view.

When you first walk down the stairs and notice the display by Mary Mattingly you see a picture of the messiah. Or so it would appear. What youÕre actually looking at is a member of a nomadic society set in the future, clad in a pristine, cult-ish white robe, looking off to the futuristic distance in "The New Mobility of Home (The Nobility of Mobility)." This "futuristic distance" was created through the mixing of two photographs, one shot in Iceland, the other in the Netherlands, and the effect throws us into the Garden of Eden of the future: a semi-religious scene with an air of creepy over-perfection that is near frightening.

Luckily, however, thereÕs more to man and nature than futuristic societies. In another display, photographer Victor Schrager in his series "Bird Hand" captures nature in a more traditional sense. Here, humans cradle nature in their hands, quite literally, in a series of photographs where birds are held in the palms of body-less hands. Though the photographs are small and easy to miss, itÕs the fragile, elegant manner of these balanced black-and-whites that bring us back to the reality of the gentle interactivity of humankind and nature.