The Fear of Pollution

Pile of Sadness (2012)

Twisted (2012)

We need to change our outlook on pollution. It needs to be drastically reduced. For this shoot, I shot varies places around my state. It is quite gross and heartbreaking to think this much trash can be so easily found. In Pile of Sadness, I was capturing a scene in which huge straps of machinery are in the open desert. This is awful. Instead of having a clean and open environment for animals to live in, huge bits of metal are siting everywhere collecting dust. For Twisted, I noticed the contrast between nature and our pollution. This huge dark shape is a tire from a construction vehicle. The problem here though, is that rubber cannot just vanish, it can take tens of thousands of years to decompose naturally. Those are years in which, the land can no longer be used by other animals and organisms. You could burn this rubber, but then toxic chemicals and more CO2 can be released into the air. Either way, simply dumping is not the right method for reducing pollution. Broken Dreams is a symbol of what happens when people simply give up on either goals, interests, or dreams. Instead of pursuing a dream of football in this case, the previous owner threw it out and it is now rotting away. This way of thinking should not continue. Just because someone does not want something, does not mean that he or she should simply throw it away. Perhaps another child or adult would have enjoyed this football. Also, people should not buy or take what she or he doesn't want. Simply getting something for the sake of having it, does not make sense. As we look into the future, we should all be thinking about having only the things we really want and need, and will use. Lastly, for the Dirty  photograph, I was hoping to once again raise questions about how we get rid of our waste. How did this objects get to the point that they are in this bad shape? Why and how has it become so stacked up like this?  

Broken Dreams (2012)

Dirty (2012)