Shortlisted this year for the Prix Pictet award, Mishka Henner has been making a very impressive conceptual body of work over the years. Normally Henner is a bit of a Photo Dadaist prankster (see Robert Frank’s famous book he erased – it’s brilliant – and pissed everyone off). But his Feedlots images along with the Oil Fields compromise a haunting look at the effects of these two industries on the American landscape. Shot from high above the plains they appear to be abstractions but a closer look gives us the diabolical details of these industries. Particularly horrifying (and intensely beautiful) are the run off ponds that these feedlots produce.
All images via the artists web site
Mishka Henner: Feedlots
