Richard Misrach
To start the session off we watched an interview with Misrach (video title: Corbis Interviews Richard Misrach at 2013). There was a lot to take in from this interview and it was difficult to write down everything so here are the main points, I've also included the video for you to watch.

In 1998 he kept a journal of what he was seeing of the toxic environment in Nevada (Cancer Alley), and in 2009/2010 a museum wanted him to revisit the commission.
He made a book in three days - no text in it at all. The text within the images are read as poetry.

Corbis Interviews Richard Misrach at 2013 LOOK3

Untitled (New Orleans and the Gulf Coast), 2005

Untitled (February 15, 2012 6:28PM), 2012)

This is one of the images from his series of work "The Beach" which was inspired by the events of 9/11.

The lone figure in the sea mirrors those jumping from the towers, escaping the flames inside. He produced

this work after seeing cliff divers jump into the sea.

Joel Sternfeld "On This Site"

Landscape in Memoriam

I feel like these images are incredibly relevant to my work as they show gritty areas that perhaps need a little bit of love and care. The top image doesn't show this but the area that I chose does have nice houses/ a community centre so I felt like Sternfeld was also relevant for showing the other side. The last image really amuses me as the billboard in the background reads "It's the Nature of Our Business" with an idyllic landscape when the reality shows a baron, industrial site; on the complete opposite end of the spectrum.

Jeff Wall
We also watched a video where Jeff Wall is interviewed, I couldn't really hear a lot of what he was saying: