The Quelccaya Ice cap, Peru and a lake which started forming in 1991 as a result of melting.

Name: The Quelccaya Ice cap, Peru and a lake which started forming in 1991 as a result of melting.
Brand: Peter Essick
Price: 300.0 USD
Availability: InStock

$300.00 USD

Artist: Peter Essick
Certification of Authenticity: Apricus Art Collection
Signature:Signed by Artist

Description

Archival Pigment Print
16" x 20" (12" x 18" image size)
Signed on verso, Edition 1/10

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Artist Biography

Peter Essick is a photographer, author, speaker, instructor, and drone pilot with 30 years of experience working for National Geographic Magazine. He specializes in nature and environmental themes. Named one of the forty most influential nature photographers in the world by Outdoor Photography Magazine UK, Essick has been influenced by many noted American landscape photographers from Carleton Watkins to Robert Adams. His goal is to make photographs that move beyond documentation to reveal in careful compositions the human impact of development as well as the enduring power of the land.

Essick is the author of four books of his photographs, The Ansel Adams Wilderness, Our Beautiful, Fragile World, Fernbank Forest and Work in Progress. He has photographed stories for National Geographic on many environmental issues including climate change, high-tech trash, nuclear waste, and freshwater. After 30 years travelling the world as an editorial photographer, Essick now focuses his work on a more personal documentation of the environmental and cultural changes in his hometown of Atlanta.

Essick's photographs are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Booth Western Art Museum and many other private collections. He is represented by Spalding Nix Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.

Artist Statement

Photography has a history of documenting everyday life. In my neighborhood in Atlanta, construction activity is an everyday occurrence. It wasn’t until I started flying a drone that I realized that construction sites offered so many different visual perspectives. The textures and colors of human-altered landscapes are endlessly fascinating. There is a sense of freedom to be able to see and photograph this landscape from the viewpoint of a drone flying over a site.

I find it hard to explain my deeper motives for photographing construction sites. On a personal level, I enjoy the unique challenge of capturing an ever-changing landscape. Construction sites change by the day and the light and exposure are never the same, so there is always a sense of joy in capturing the perfect moment. The elements of soil, wood, steel, and concrete relate to each other in infinite varieties of order and disorder. The surface reflections can create altering moods and various meanings. I enjoy capturing it all.

I am also trying to document the environmental impacts of construction, land use, and suburban sprawl. Construction and development have undeniable negative impacts including the elimination of tree cover and loss of habitat for wildlife. More pavement heats up the city and exacerbates global warming. Sprawl is a major contributor to a poor quality of life with many detrimental health effects resulting from a sedentary lifestyle. All this development is happening on traditional lands of the Muscogee people who were forcibly removed from the region two centuries ago. While I am using my drone for photography, drones have been and continue to be used as weapons of war as well. I try to understand these issues and incorporate them into my own personal photographic practice.

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