ABSTRACT
Since the 1990s, the rapid growth of the global economy and heightened awareness of man's impact on nature has revitalised landscape photography, which now addresses mass consumption, global power and the delicate balance of social, political and economic forces. Photographers such as Robert Adams typified the new wave of images that responded to this by registering man's imprint on nature. Since the 1990s, landscape photography has again been reinvigorated by awareness of climate change and diminishing natural resources, as well as issues relating to globalisation, economic growth and the uneven distribution of labour and wealth. Sayler and Morris's images of landscapes ravaged by drought, natural fires and melting icecaps were produced alongside research teams and conservation scientists, and are exhibited to promote understanding of climate change.
