"Eirik Johnson" Art Talk and Book Signing
Aperture Gallery
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Coinciding with the highly anticipated release of Sawdust Mountain, Eirik Johnson will discuss the work from the book, a culmination of four years photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California.
A Seattle native, emerging photographer Eirik Johnson focuses on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support. Timber and salmon are the bedrock of a regional Northwest identity, but the environmental impact of these industries has been increasingly at odds with the contemporary ideal of sustainability. In this, his second book, Johnson reveals a landscape imbued with an uncertain future—no longer the region of boomtowns built upon the riches of massive old growth forests. Through this poetic approach, Sawdust Mountain records a region affected by historic economic complexities and, by extension, aspects of our fraught relationship with the environment in the twenty-first century.
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May 26, 2009 from 18:30