Richard Misrach

I think there is a lot to say about the landscape you inhabit, but when you talk about a place of desolation void of any life it speaks volumes. I like the fact that his photo's capture the landscape in this unreal nature. It gives the landscape this power forcing you to take notice to its dreamlike reality. I just feel like all his pieces have this underlying idea that the Earth and the environment is eternal, while man is nothing but a speck of insignificance. You can see it in his landscape pictures the horizon and scene just seems to go on for ever. While in the pieces with man made objects or human beings in them are presented as desolated and abandoned or forgettable and negligible. And I think that's where the power of the terrain draws you in because of the fact that we are so forgettable while the terrain remains memorable for its surreal qualities.