Live Bait – © John Neel

The landscape is no longer about the amazing vistas, gorgeous skies, and overwhelming natural beauty that many of us long for. Rather, within photography and much of the other arts, it has become among many other things, about the exhaustion of natural resources for capital gain, the disrespect, and neglect of the environment and the long-term effects and threats of wars.

For many of us, landscape photography has become a witnessing of a planet that has been transformed by ravenousness consumption caused by corporate greed and human excess. It is about our blind indifference to the realities of our complete reliance on the environment to exist.

I think if you look at the image above, you’ll find that there is a lot going on. It shows a shopping cart, which is a symbol of corporate consumerism and a bait dispenser that offers the capture of nature. There is also a coke machine, which is one of the leading corporate symbols for plundering the planet of natural resources. It is not just a picture of a coke machine. The photograph depicts a modern landscape that has been fashioned by gluttony.

It is also a completely contrived landscape that we have brought about through indifference.

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