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WEBSITE:   http://www.shaunlang.com

Press Release:

 

     In “Paradise Lost: The Life and Death of the Salton Sea” Shaun Lang’s photo essay explores the cultural, economic, and ecological tragedy that has

become the Salton Sea.  Created by a levee disaster, the former salt mine is

the largest “accidental” inland saline lake in North America.   Over the

years, the 1950’s thriving recreational and vacation destination has been

decimated by repeated natural, and man-made calamities.  Lang, who

specializes in environmental portraiture, says “If you look beyond the

atrophied landscape there is life among the ruins...” when referring to the

residents of the sea.  From the penitent portrait of local icon Leonard

Knight to the “Ghost Trees” of the Sonny Bono Wildlife Preserve, Lang’s

giclee and silver gelatin prints capture the sea in stark relief against the

backdrop of one of America’s great natural sanctuaries.

 

 

About the Artist:

 

     When I take a photograph I do not see an image, but a question.  Who is

this?  Where do they come from? Why is it? What is it...what lies beneath.

Beyond the “decisive moment” just out of frame there is a story, and through

photography I try to interpret that story.  I have been shooting for the

past fifteen years, and my recent trip through India and the Middle East

(shooting for an upcoming book) furthered my cultural education as a

photographer, and the desire to tell the story.