Video: Man-made pollution: beauty and ugliness in Henry Fair's photography project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Millions of journalists, politicians and scientists tell us day after day that technogenic pollution destroys our clean home. But it's better to see once than hear a hundred times: a large-scale photo project Henry Fair (J. Henry Fair) " Industrial scars"(" industrial scars ") shows from a bird's eye view how much the planet is changing under our dirty hands. technogenic panoramas … are beautiful.
Swing technogenic pollution of the world so huge that you can't see it up close. Much better is to apply aerial photography. This is what photo artist and environmental enthusiast Henry Fair decided when he began work on capturing the planet's scars on film.
“My work meets my vision of society. I see that our culture is reduced to an excessive consumption of oil and other natural resources, albeit at the cost of future scarcity. But I also see an opportunity to limit our needs, handle the land carefully, take care of human health … It is not too late to turn our civilization towards healthy stability, the photographer believes. Basically, his scourging pathos is directed at America, which he considers a model of immoderation, wastefulness and greed.
Henry Fair's photographs are conventional aerial photography. According to the artist, he applies only standard photographic contrast controls to it. Nevertheless, the photographs he has selected and taken leave an unforgettable impression. According to the author, he began by shooting "just ugly things" and man-made garbage, but over time his panoramas have acquired a frightening beauty. And if you think that these are some kind of anomalous zones, then you are mistaken: Henry Fair's photo shows the most ordinary coal mines, dirty rivers, dumps, oil-smeared coast … Some of this is probably not far from your home.
Henry Fair's photo project has found the widest resonance in the world; The New York Times, USA Today, GQ and many other well-known media wrote about his photographs. Fight against technogenic pollution continues - it will probably be better if the beauty of industrial landscapes remains only in the photo.
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