|
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
|
|
|
Artist: J Henry Fair |
| Exhibition: Special Reconnaissance |
| Date: November 09 2006 - January 19 2007 |
Curator: Dylan J. Gauthier
|
Bio:
These photographs were inspired by my obsession with our consumption-based, throw-away society, and how that affects our interaction with the natural world. Environmental questions have forced their way to the front of my thinking increasingly in the last few years, and I found myself prowling around the perimeters of industrial sites. The series is about the mining of coal, which has a double impact on our environment: the extraction is destroying one of the most pristine ecosystems left in the USA, and the combustion is one of the leading causes of global warming and acid rain. The photographs are environmental, thus in some sense political, but they have a fascinating beauty; each image alternating between the abstract and concrete, possibly in the same breath.
|
< back
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
