For his recent New York trilogy, "New York Arbor" and "Rocks and Clouds", Epstein photographed the city’s trees, rocks, and clouds with an 8x10 view camera and black and white film to depict the interplay between society and nature: “Epstein's trees extend the photographer’s longstanding interest in mankind’s disruption of our environment,” writes Rob Slifkin, “...his new work typically addresses this theme of human engagement with nature without recourse to the inclusion of actual people. Instead it is the way the human environment clumsily perches itself upon and amidst the natural world that defines Epstein’s approach to landscape.”