I guess they got around to their notification letters a little early this year, but I’m excited to see I got a few images from my recent, as of yet not quite finished personal project involving landfill landscapes into Project Basho’s February 2010 show in Philadelphia. The opening is Feb. 13, so this might be [...]
A recent scan from my ongoing landscape/nature essay on ex-landills.
Lately I’ve had a chance or two to get out into the public spaces built on and around landfills. It’s a solitary project that I’m really enjoying, not unlike the one I worked on last year in Athens…but this will look a bit different. Some spaces allow nearly complete isolation, others, you can’t quite get [...]
Montrose Beach – July 2009
It’s been a busy week, one where I didn’t make a whole lot of photographs. Here’s an image I’ve been sitting on. Hopefully this week will yield a few more shoots for myself.
I had the chance to take some film to the lab this week. Had a few different shoots to scan but here’s a frame from Settler’s Hill golf course in Batavia, Ill. It was an impressive course with probably the most diverse topography that you can get in the suburbs. The adjacent landfill is 900 [...]
I’ve recently started exploring spaces that were, at one point in time, landfill. Garbage. Refuse.
It’s become a trend in urban and park planning to foresee the life of a space after it can’t take anymore garbage. This project is just beginning and I’m still exploring the possibilities or lack thereof photographically, but here’s an initial [...]