new topographics

I love looking at and making photographs that beg us to look at how man interacts with the land and changes the landscape and leaving us with some of these questions: What can we infer from the landscape about the choices that we as humans and citizens have made over the last five decades?  What have we built, how are we living and working?  What have we lost and what have we left behind? Should we lament, or should we celebrate?  Where should we go from here?

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I made many of the pictures in this project with a sort of new “new topographics” view, with inspiration from the photos by Robert Adams especially, and with the encouragement of my photo professor and mentor, Rosemary Jesionowski at McNeese State University.