Minnesota is a place where land, water, and human intention meet in ways at once beautiful and fraught. Its lakes, rivers, and forests hold immense ecological and cultural weight, yet they also reveal the pressures that shape the region through policy, industry, and collective choice.
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A Landscape Under Threat approaches these sites not only through depiction but through the material language of the photograph itself. Sediment, silt, and site-specific particulates enter the process, leaving their marks as stains, veils, and disruptions across the negatives. These aberrations, along with the visible inscriptions of the negative edges, become part of the image and act as metaphors for the forces that inscribe themselves onto the land. The work uses these material interventions to question how human decisions accumulate, settle, and alter the environments we depend on.
These photographs are part of my ongoing thesis for my Master of Arts in Photography at the Academy of Art University.
