Is this a dream?! Thrilled that you are offering your work within this digital space, Prof. Lewis!
One thing I have been thinking about lately is images of climate crises (mostly aerials or large scale) that permeate our imaginations. As with food deserts, representations of climate disasters directly relate to social injustices, but highly praised images often focus on degradation of the landscape rather than of its people. But I wonder how Latoya Ruby Frazier’s work, “Flint is Family,” can teach us how to understand the infrastructure of a climate crisis, in her case water access, while also making its agents more visible at various scales. Or that of Gordon Parks (!!) in Gloucester and Pittsburgh, 1940s.
Excited to follow V&J through its substack journey!
What an incredibly filled and exciting substack sharing. I will be looking at your links and sharing with my own students her in St Louis. As a photographer who works in a landscape so often unseen and within communities and so often unacknowledged, I look to your writing as a grounding place. Thank you, thank you for relevant and urgent work. I look forward to more.
Is this a dream?! Thrilled that you are offering your work within this digital space, Prof. Lewis!
One thing I have been thinking about lately is images of climate crises (mostly aerials or large scale) that permeate our imaginations. As with food deserts, representations of climate disasters directly relate to social injustices, but highly praised images often focus on degradation of the landscape rather than of its people. But I wonder how Latoya Ruby Frazier’s work, “Flint is Family,” can teach us how to understand the infrastructure of a climate crisis, in her case water access, while also making its agents more visible at various scales. Or that of Gordon Parks (!!) in Gloucester and Pittsburgh, 1940s.
Excited to follow V&J through its substack journey!
What an incredibly filled and exciting substack sharing. I will be looking at your links and sharing with my own students her in St Louis. As a photographer who works in a landscape so often unseen and within communities and so often unacknowledged, I look to your writing as a grounding place. Thank you, thank you for relevant and urgent work. I look forward to more.