David Maisel’s work spans many different project over many years. One of his interests is in documenting through aerial photographs the impact that Man has on the landscape. The image above is from “The Mining Project” where he explores the effect of mining in “undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty [...]
Archive of posts tagged landscape
Stone Nudes by Dean Fidelman
Dean Fidelman has generated a series of mesmerizing images for his project Stone Nudes. Fidelman is a rock climber and he describes his series as “A photographic project that captures the essence of the climbing spirit”. But to me these images speak more broadly than just telling a story about climbing. To my eyes these [...]
Genesis: A Masterwork by Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado is a giant in the world of documentary photography. His projects are expansive and ambitious. His documentation of the human aspects of Africa was completed before Africa became fashionable. “Workers” – a seven year project – documented laborers in 26 countries. “Migrations” was a 6 year project documenting refugees and other displaced people. [...]
UK Landscape Photographer of The Year
I have so far resisted the temptation to include in this blog what I call ‘straight’ photography – that which is a ‘reproduction’ or ‘reportage’ of some version of reality but which has no strong conceptual basis. In other words photography that brings us little that is new in terms of conceptual thinking. Traditional landscape [...]
Garbage and Landscape Beauty – the work of Yao Lu
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 [...]
