Luke Whitestar McColl
The connection between humanity and the natural world has faded as the era of the Anthropocene is upon the Earth. The impact of human activity on the environment is transforming nature as we know it, shifting our understanding into merely a memory of what it once was. Humanity’s vision of nature as a resource to fund industrial and technological progression has caused detrimental exploitation of the environment. The climate crisis that we know today has come from this mistreatment and is a disaster that can only be prevented with a ground-breaking shift in awareness and action. In Colour of Disaster I’ve taken landscape photographs of idyllic scenes of nature and manipulated them to visualise the ongoing impacts of the climate crisis through the use of colour. Each colour captures how the world is degenerating: red represents the temperature increasing; green represents the pollution enveloping the air; blue represents the sea levels rising. Colour highlights the impending disaster when the environment will shift into a wasteland.
Colour of Disaster, 2020
Photographic prints
594mm x 841mm