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Project Basho’s Onward show

Peter — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:38:46 +0000

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 the perfect time to head out to Philly, see the city and piggy back my next trip to NYC on afterwards, and ring in a birthday out East. NYC friends let me know if you’ve got a couch.

Greene Valley/Red Tree

Peter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:27:34 +0000

A recent scan from my ongoing landscape/nature essay on ex-landills.

Greene Valley

Peter — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:53:54 +0000

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 away from suburbia. Green Valley, which is one of the largest landfills, is surrounded by trails that offer some of the most “cover” from where you actually are.

In Water

Peter — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:55:28 +0000

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.

Settler’s Hill

Peter — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:52:06 +0000

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 ft. above sea level. That’s a mountain out here in these parts.

This is part of my series on reclaimed landfills. I’m still exploring and figuring out things about this project but this was my fifth shoot I think so some ideas are starting to become more clear, like the fact that this will probably be the most minimalistic project I’ve ever worked on…which I’m a bit excited about actually. I’m pretty sure many images might be pretty mundane but I hope still pleasing, and once I get a good body of work I hope that as a group they speak more effectively.

Treasure from trash

Peter — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:18:55 +0000

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 frame.

Blackwell Forest Preserve, Winfield, IL around sunrise. This post could be the first of many treasure from trash images.