I found these photographs of polluted landscapes by David Maisel absolutely captivating. There’s something hauntingly
beautiful about the acrid colours and harsh lines.
But what I also found fascinating was a
comment made by the photographer at the end of the article. Maisel explains
that his photographs are not meant to be directly critical of any particular
industry and points out that photography requires the very resource extraction
and manufacturing that caused the pollution his work depicts. He admits that
he’s “embedded in the subject matter of this work.”
I thought this was a really interesting
idea – that artist and subject matter are not only linked but reinforce each
other.
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