Photographer David Maisel
THESE dazzling shots of transformed landscapes paint a stark picture of our effect on the world, and what we leave behind. They are part of artist and photographer David Maisel鈥檚 latest exhibition, The Expanded Field.
Over three decades, Maisel took aerial photos of environmental change and human activity, such as desertification zones and mining projects, to reveal the scale and dramatic consequences of our actions.
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The image above is taken from Maisel鈥檚 photo series , which features regions near the Spanish city of Toledo. This 2013 shot reveals the grey of La Mancha agricultural plateau, which results from the mineral borax in the soil.
Another of Maisel鈥檚 series is , which features mines in Chile. The 2018 photo shows one of the Minera Centinela copper mine鈥檚 tailing ponds, dammed to hold the toxic by-products of mining.
A further tailing pond, in the vicinity of a former nitrate-mining area, Pedro de Valdivia, can be seen in the below, also taken in 2018.
The modernity and sprawl of Los Angeles is captured above and below, taken in 2004 and drawn from Maisel鈥檚 Oblivion .
The below image, taken in 1989 and part of Maisel鈥檚 , shows surface water contaminated by the products of a gold-mining project in Clifton, Arizona.
The Expanded Field is at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York City until 20 November.
