Yao Lu is a digital artist who creates beautiful landscape images in the style of traditional Chinese paintings – beautiful mountain and water scenes are shrouded in could and mist, eliciting serene and romantic feelings. But a closer look at these images reveals that all is not as it seems. The images are digital composites [...]
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What is American Power? – Mitch Epstein
In 2003, photographer Mitch Epstein was commissioned to do an unusual job. “I had been hired to photograph a town in the process of being erased. The American Electric Power Company had paid residents of Cheshire a lump sum to leave, never come back and never complain in the media or in court if they [...]
Turning Back The Clock – Harri Kallio and the Dodo
I have often wondered what the now extinct dodo bird looked like when it was still around and roaming in the wild. Harri Kallio has tried to give us an insight into this lost-forever part of our world with his series “The Dodo and Mauritius Island” Kallio undertook extensive research into the dodo, what it [...]
Clever or Effective? The Work of Chris Jordan
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
