Chris Jordan’s art examines the massiveness of our consumption and its effects. In his artist’s statement he says “The pervasiveness of our consumerism holds a seductive kind of mob mentality. Collectively we are committing a vast and unsustainable act of taking, but we each are anonymous and no one is in charge or accountable for [...]
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Minkkinnen’s Body And The Natural Environment
Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s photographs make a powerful visual statement about Man’s interaction with the natural environment – even though that was not his intent when he created this fascinating body of work.
Minkkinen is a Finnish photographer who created ’self-portraits’ of a different kind. He set himself the task of creating a set of photographs of [...]
Man and Animals – Amy Stein's Domesticated
How do you examine Man’s relationship with Animals and ‘nature’ in a way that doesn’t result in crass, clichéd or meaningless imagery? Amy Stein manages to do this with such a powerful artistic sensitivity that her images stop you in your tracks – well at least they did me.
In her series named “Domesticated” she examines [...]
Beauty or Garbage?
Edward Burtynsky knows what to do with a dump. He brings it to us photographed with architectural symmetry and precision. He creates a formal beauty out of garbage.
Burtynsky has made it his life’s work to create images of the imprint that Man leaves on the world. Be it the wounds on the earth created by [...]
Fantastical Worlds?
Mary Mattingly is a highly imaginative artist. In a genre of work akin to science fiction, she extrapolates today’s developments to create a vision of a future world.
The background to some of her themes has been explored before but her work, evolving over a number of years, builds, layer upon layer, to create an ever [...]
