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bostoncommon-magazine.com 111 DaDDy's girl acclaimed photographer Jesse Burke hit the road with his daughter to create art iNspired BY a higher love. By Jared Bowen Jesse Burke is a formidable force in photography. His "Intertidal" series reconciles bombastic notions of masculinity with the more vulner- able sides of men, while his series "Low" examines their inner demons. His work has been published far and wide and collected by several major muse- ums. Time magazine declared him a must-follow photographer on Instagram. But Burke met his match when he hit the road with his five-year-old daughter, Clover, in 2011, when they began a series of road trips together. The photogra- pher, used to having full control over his shoots, suddenly found himself at the whim of his fiercely independent child. Five years of road trip photo- graphs are now on view at the RISD Museum in the aptly titled "Wild & Precious" show, as well as in a companion book of the same name. There are the pictures you might expect a father would take: Clover bathed in sunlight or standing amid the towering evergreens of the Pacific Northwest. Then there are the unexpected ones: Clover seem- ingly petulant and scowling, curled around a baby raccoon or standing next to a giant dead whale—her young life measured against its mammoth one. The series is a gorgeous testament to the ethereal power of nature. To say nothing of a father-daughter bond—when it's them against the world. 20 N. Main St., Providence, RI, 401-454-6500; risdmuseum.org . photography by jesse burke I Got Stripes (2014). left: Look Unto the East (2012). below: Four Strong Winds (2011)