National Wildlife Federation includes documentary image in "50 Years of Incredible Images"

 

I am honored that a documentary photograph of mine National Wildlife Magazine published in 1990 is included in the June/July 2012 special photography issue of their magazine celebrating "50 Years of Incredible Images."  As you can imagine there are lovely and stunning photographs of animals throughout the publication...my image was used to highlight the magazine's coverage of enviromental issues over the years.


The photograph, shot during the 1988 Louisiana Toxics March, was made early in my career while working on a long term documentary project related to the environmental justice movement in the US.  The project explored people living in the shadow of petro-chemical factories and hazardous waste dumps in this country.  


While it has been many years since I have directly photographed these issues, the images I made in the late 1980s through mid-1990s have a life of their own and have been used by a wide variety of players; from environmental groups, industry publications, government (including the EPA), and mainstream media publications to illustrate the difficult story of industrial pollution and it's effects on people and the environment.


You can see some of that work on an old website of mine here...I plan to put up an archive site of these images in the near future.