Whose land?

 

Landfills, dams, manufacturing and housing units, yards, quarries, railway tracks, overpasses, marginal areas, scrap, functions and transformations impacting territories, questionable land use methods, these are the geographic portraits of photographer Jason Koxvold. With a compassionate, patient, cynical but always elegant look he explores aware the landscapes of the transition from the abandoned Detroit to the postcomunist suburbs, from the bulimic Asia to the Japanese hyper productivity. A schizophrenic mosaic that reproduces a Lilliputian land, a swarm of activities, buildings, and views, dense, frenetic and often gray. Whose land we wonder.

 

«My interest in landscapes grew from a need to explore man’s desire to control his environment - to tame nature. We have a remarkable need to make things rectangular and paint them black, white, or beige. This process of changing the land is sometimes incredibly rapid, at other times so slow that it’s almost imperceptible. These moments of change often go unseen or unnoticed; in documenting it, I find a lot of intersections between the beauty of the image and the cynicism in the observation.»

 

 

Photo:

© Courtesy of Jason Koxvold

www.koxvold.com

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