David Maisel

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…

— David Maisel

I started as a black and white photographer, but the colors I was seeing were just so lurid and compelling and awful…

— David Maisel

I still shoot film. I like what film does, how it renders things, Also, when I'm shooting from the air, I want…

— David Maisel

The thing that struck me most about the Mount St. Helens project was not the devastation of the eruption, but the logging…

— David Maisel

With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms…

— David Maisel

I live in the 20th century. I have copper rivets on my jeans.

— David Maisel

The resulting prints of 'History's Shadow' make the invisible visible and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself and…

— David Maisel

I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work.

— David Maisel

The active and abandoned tailings ponds I have photographed, for example, are strangely beautiful - yet they are also chock full of…

— David Maisel

It was only after a while, after photographing mines and clear-cutting of forests in Maine, that I realized I was looking at…

— David Maisel