George Carlin --> ‘on the environment’ video
What can we do as photographers to help the environment:- Safe disposal of chemicals
- Not printing unnecessarily
- The topics that we photograph
Landscape photography:- Rise of the landscape in the Netherlands- Bridge with a Sluice
- Burning oil sludge- North of Denver- Colorado 1973
- Lakewood, California 1950
- Ansel Adams – Bridal Veil falls- Yosemeti
- Swamp and pipeline, Geismar, Louisiana 1998
- Desert fire 1985
- Cancer Alley – Holy Rosary and Dow chemical corporation à Louisiana
- Cypress Swamp, Alligator Bayou, Louisiana – 1998
- Community remains, Former Morrisonville Settlement, Dow chemical corporation – Louisiana 1998
- Sebastiao Salgado à environmental documentary artist
- John Davies – Landscape photographer
- Fay Godwin- ‘She believed in peoples’ right to land, people may purchase pieces of land, however, individuals should not be stopped from having a right to way’- Forbidden land
- Anthony Haughey- Documents people à Home series, 1992. He also did a project called ‘Settlements’ following on from the boom- era.
- Robert Polidori- the aftermath of flooding/earthquakes
- Matilda Temperley- Somerset floods
- Edward Burtynsky- oil fields, 2003 à oil spill, 2010
As a photographer covering topics such as these, means that although the topic itself may be unpleasant; the quality of the photography shouldn’t be the same.
Recommendations-Chris Jordan Running the numbers, The Midway Atol
https://chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/~silent-spring