I'm pleased to announce the upcoming release of a new collaborative book titled Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado. More information about the publication is here.
Some background: thirty years ago I was a young college student when I first read an article about the theoretical effects of global climate change. Back then it was an abstract off-in-the-future concept. About the same time I saw examples of rephotography by Mark Klett and others and thought that was a compelling way to investigate and visualize the past and the ever-changing present. I chose to become a photographer.
Fast forward three decades and what was once abstract is now visible and present in every corner of the world, including Glen Canyon/Lake Powell - a place that is challenging, complex, sublime, and somber.
I’m grateful to have worked on this book with long time collaborators Rebecca Solnit and Mark Klett (our second project together and our first with designer David Chickey of Radius Books - with special thanks to Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, for his introduction). Even though there are only two rephotographs in the whole of the book, it’s probably the closest (yet) to realizing what I hoped I might do when I chose to walk a path.
Byron