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• ‟ I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.

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• ‟ I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.

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• ‟ I'm working in this very complex set of issues having to do with who we are as a species and how much we can do to the Earth before it starts to buckle under. My work can easily read as an indictment, but I don't see it as that simple a problem.

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• ‟ I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

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• ‟ I came out of a blue-collar town, a GM town, and my father worked at GM, so I was very familiar with that kind of industry and that also informed my work.

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• ‟ All of my work comes out of a deep concern for human expansion into the landscape.

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• ‟ One thing that's consistent in all of my work is that these aren't accidents; they're all conscious landscapes. They're all things that we're doing and that we have done through our legal and social systems and structures of capitalism.

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