Untitled, 2003

Wolkoff started by photographing her family, friends, and the landscapes where she grew up. "I've always been interested in the intersection between humans and the natural world," she says.

Untitled, 2004

The stark outlines of silhouettes fascinate Wolkoff. When she started making silhouettes of the people around her, she say, "I found I was really interested in exploring how little information I could reveal and still have the be person be visible. I became very interested in pushing the boundaries of expected photography."

Northern Lapwing, 2005

For one series, Wolkoff took the method that she had used to make silhouette portraits and applied it to a historic collection of stuffed birds on Block Island, Rhode Island. "The collection was created by a woman named Elizabeth Dickens at the turn of the century," Wolkoff says. "Each bird has a tag with its name, where it was found, and how it died—for example, 'Death by cat' or Flew into the lighthouse.'"

Deer bed, 2007

Deer beds, or impressions in the grass where deer have slept, make up another series of Wolkoff's photographs."I spent time in the fields around my parents' house following the deer tracks to find their beds," she says.

Japanese Maple Bonsai, 2013

Wolkoff has beenI photographing the C.V.Starr collection of bonsai at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens in silhouette in order, she says, to "challenge the viewer's understanding of scale and space."