Carl Austin Hyatt is a fine art black & white photographer living on the coast of New England. For fifty years he has been crafting exceptionally beautiful prints with the traditional tools of large format photography, exposing film and printing silver and platinum prints in his darkroom. His inspiration flows from a deep reverence for what the ancients called the Anima Mundi - the Soul of The World. This is an intuitive but palpable sense that the world is aware, conscious and ensouled. He has extensive bodies of work concentrating on the coast of New England, portraiture, figurative work and the indigenous cultures of the rugged Peruvian Andes. He has a passionate ongoing love affair with stones - which is what initially drew him to Peru. His work is collected in numerous public and private institutions including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Smithsonian Museum, the Currier Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art (at Phillips Andover Academy) and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. He is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a member of the National Parks Arts Foundation Advisory Board.In addition to his photographic work for the last 25 years Hyatt has immersed himself in the indigenous shamanic traditions of the high Peruvian Andes. He regularly organizes pilgrimages to Peru. For the last 20 years he has been an international workshop leader facilitating corporate retreats and ceremonial shamanic gatherings. He has had two essays published with accompanying photographs focusing on the challenges a Westerner often encounters while struggling to adopt the animist cosmological perspectives of people living in the high Peruvian Andes:"Journey to the Last of the Incas", published by Anathema Publishing, and "Listening to Stone Beings" published by the Guggenheim Museum and e-Flux Architecture.