“Sungazing” by Photographer Catherine Canac-Marquis
A meditative collection exploring the affect of solar energy initiatives on the California panorama by French-Canadian photographer Catherine Canac-Marquis. Based mostly in Lengthy Seaside, California, Canac-Marquis’s latest work focuses on the desert ecosystems and geosystems of the American Southwest. Addressing the most important environmental problems with our century — water shortage, preservation of pure environments, desertification, local weather change — her research-based apply promotes present scientific information, information assortment, and discipline research.
In “Sungazing,” Canac-Marquis pursues the stress between the necessity to scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions and the environmental menace clear power initiatives can pose to the lands on which they’re constructed. The state of California, for instance, plans to acquire 100% of its electrical energy from clear power sources by 2045. Nevertheless, the infrastructure wanted to fulfill that demand locations hundreds of thousands of hectares of protected areas underneath menace from the strain of the photo voltaic power foyer. As such, Canac-Marquis’ collection seeks to current a lyrical imaginative and prescient of photo voltaic power in tandem with its exploitation:
“Punctuated with allusions to the solar, my pictures oscillate between the illustration of wildlife and different types of biodiversity tailored to the desert and its immensity, the seen penalties of local weather change, and infrastructures permitting the manufacturing of unpolluted and renewable power. I’m within the affect of photo voltaic growth on conservation values within the California deserts, and the best way to obtain a balanced plan for addressing each biodiversity preservation and greenhouse gasoline emissions discount. As a result of large-scale photo voltaic installations remodel lands the place they’re situated into a brand new type of constructed atmosphere, I search to emphasise the significance of understanding an ecosystem earlier than irrevocably altering it.”
See extra pictures from “Sungazing” under.
