Anne McClintock, South African/American
Toxic Ghostscapes near Venice, Louisiana, 2010
McClintock’s photo embodies the overlapping realities of capitalism and climate catastrophe. In the foreground, a “ghost forest”—trees that once flourished on land are now drowned by sea-level rise and flooding— remains in the wake of rising seas in Louisiana. They are joined by a submerged vehicle, representing the joint destruction to both human and non-human life. In the background, man-made structures remain safe from the flooding, standing parallel behind the ravaged trees. This can only stand to represent the oppressive regime that capitalistic intentions has formed and dominated the land and all those living on it. Label by Courtney Hand