Rebecca Wickham’s photographic practice is concerned with the climate crisis and our relationship with the Earth. Primarily focused on landscape, she is interested in the materiality of place, often working directly with the environment to bring a trace of its history and physicality into the work. Once Was explores ecological grief, through landscape and death mask, and asks how to mourn for more-than-human loss. The work depicts post-glacial landscapes alongside death masks made from earth and meltwater, linking human and landscape through grief, memory and imprint, and reflecting on absence, responsibility and entanglement.