'The photographer makes masterful use of darkness as a communicative
tool, and when light appears, it is as a scarce and distant gift, often
emanating from an unseen clearing, or reflected by an animal or human
form; it is not inherent. Koenning plays with scale (are we inches from
the seabed, or many feet above a hillside?) and muddles the line of
vision: a mountainside through a dirty window, a seascape through a
cloth, pelicans in a cage. In Koenning’s hands, we are face to face with
the calamity of the Earth, the things that are happening to its
landscapes and its species; The Crossing is like dropping a pearl into murky water and watching it sink from view.' - Alice Zoo
