Spectrum Gallery

To end on a joyful note... Bob's retirement party, May 22, 2014.
© Bruno Chalifour, 2014.

NEW SHOW at SPECTRUM GALLERY, 100 College Avenue
April 2015

AMERICA'S ENDANGERED COASTLINE from Connecticut to Texas.
by John GANIS

John GANIS will be present and sign his book "Consuming the American Landscape" (published by Dewi Lewis).

These images have been made during a period of 2 years (2013 / 2014) for a project on which John Ganis, the photographer, embarked after the drastic consequences of hurricane Katrina and Sandy on the Atlantic coasts of the USA. Scientific research and evidence have revealed that in the next 80 years sea level is likely to rise by about 6 feet, flooding a lot of communities, some of which are still being built regardless of scientific knowledge about the combined effects of the warming of oceans (resulting in their physical expansion), the melting of continental glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, the sinking of the Eastern Coast (the result of normal geological phenomenon that we have known for some time now). Short-term thinking, profit-driven strategies, and ignorance have transformed some of us into lemmings running for the fatal cliff (and as tax-payers we are all going to be financially responsible for them!) Ganis’s images and project stand as evidence and warning.



Bruno Chalifour (curator, Spectrum Gallery, April 2015).