Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Ryan Libre

If you don’t feel the urge to drop everything and hop a plane to Japan after seeing Ryan Libre’s photographs of that country’s mountainous Daisetsuzan National Park, there might be something wrong with you. Imagine a real-life Middle Earth, full of snow-capped peaks, pristine waterfalls and lush meadows — that’s Daisetsuzan. His series “Kamui Mintara, Playground of the Gods” is at Sterling College’s Brown Library in Craftsbury Common through March 31. Libre, who helps guide Sterling students on a field-study program in Thailand, runs a nonprofit called Documentary Arts Asia, which aims to advance visual literacy and support documentary artists. Pictured: “Toma-dake.”