If we can see the grace in quotidian landscapes and our everyday routines then perhaps we can begin to make better choices. Gary Green, Elm City, 2015. All images: © & courtesy the artist. BEN LISLEOne of the things that strikes me first when looking at these photos is this tension between a thoroughly human […]

I have witnessed the utter transformation of what was once primarily a world of small towns and countryside into one of ever expanding networks of expressways, corporate centers and big box distribution centers. My work is informed, directly or indirectly, by these highly disorienting places. What I see are entirely new kinds of landscapes–highly engineered […]

I am drawn to photographing cultural sites, places where human impact is visible on the landscape, whether that may be the built environment or more subtle traces of human activity. But I’m also interested in the way that we observe and consider landscape – as tourists, as spectators, and as people with preconceptions and memories. […]

© Magdalena Solé. From After the Water Receded. “The storms are getting worse–more frequent and more intense. And the science that says so blames climate change and points a finger at us.” That was the umph line in my comment back on October 16. A lot has happened since, storm-wise, and all of it bad. […]

When I finally returned to photograph the tail waters below the dam, I arrived before sunrise. I looked to the east and realized that the sun was going to come up directly behind me and the dam was going to cast a shadow over the landscape. At first, having most of composition in shadow was […]

The spectacle we all saw on TV of ruined homes and homeowners, a somber-faced reporter asking someone who lost her home or, in too many cases, a loved one, “how do you feel?”—it was just was too much for me. What kind of answer did they want, those reporters? Peddling tragedy for ratings was repulsive […]

Spring Wish As from the Earth the light Balloon Asks nothing but release— Emily Dickinson Some mornings there was bread on the air and transoms opened to let the oaks wake you, light chains of pollen caught on the dog’s sleeping face.
 And afternoons of parades, people dressed like ghosts and cyclones, like government officials […]

The storms are getting worse–more frequent and more intense. And the science that says so blames climate change and points a finger at us. And rightly so. We know that the long term fix is the urgent fix, that we need to build smarter and in smarter places, and that we need to consume less. […]