Sam Elkind - Photography

Caught 4

A sample of work presented in "Caught," a solo exhibition at Albuquerque's Open Space Visitor Center in the summer of 2021. Also collected in a book available through Blurb.com.

Motion attracts the eye. Wind-driven forms are at the heart of this portfolio. These images show common plastic bags, lost in a moment of carelessness and blown until snagged on a random fence. Once caught, these pieces of waste flutter and tear, ripple and split.

The shapes shown here pull in two directions. While responding to the beauty of these forms, we see that they are, in fact, just litter, part of the billions of tons of plastic waste that threaten our world. We depend on plastic, using it constantly in countless ways, then discarding it. The reckless disposal of persistent wastes is catching up with us – strewn across the land, buried underground and churning in the oceanic “great garbage patch.” The forms shown here are emblems of the environmental tragedy we perpetuate daily.

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