ABSTRACT
Taking Richard Misrach and Kate Orff’s publication Petrochemical America as a starting point for a range of debates, this chapter argues that environmental photography has a crucial role to play in bringing about an awareness of environmental ethics that can aid activists and autonomous groups such as citizen scientists in their struggle against industrial pollution. Key to this debate is the definition of environmental photography as a multimodal and collaborative genre of cultural production that promotes the political values of eco-anarchist theories such as social ecology, through the medium of aesthetics.
