The active and abandoned tailings ponds I have photographed, for example, are strangely beautiful - yet they are also chock full of cyanide, which is used in the recovery of microscopic particles of gold from the waste tailings of copper… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful at the… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
I still shoot film. I like what film does, how it renders things, Also, when I'm shooting from the air, I want to have… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
The thing that struck me most about the Mount St. Helens project was not the devastation of the eruption, but the logging industry -… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
The resulting prints of 'History's Shadow' make the invisible visible and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself and the continuous… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work. — David Maisel Copy Share Image
The active and abandoned tailings ponds I have photographed, for example, are strangely beautiful - yet they are also chock full of cyanide, which… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I realized I was looking at the components… — David Maisel Copy Share Image
