
With such a delicate topic as pollution, the question always arises of how to solve a visual problem: look for beauty in the ugly or manifest ugliness in its nature. In my view, you have done an excellent job with the task. The photograph looks like the work of a contemporary artist. There is a feeling of paint spilled onto the canvas, combined with the installation objects. The picture looks both provocative and aesthetically pleasing. Brilliant work.
I am always pleased with photographs that should not work but work for some reason. A glance, satiated with landscapes of the same type, begins to look for something original. Unusual angle of view or non-standard framing, working with shadows and lighting, everything can work unexpectedly. This photo is one of those. Good work.
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Landscape photography is increasingly embracing a more honest representation of the world we live in, where very little is untouched by man, and often with poor consequences. This contest invites images of landscapes that might be described as ‘polluted’. They might be more literal, as in the images of Burtynsky (<a href="https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/tailings" target="_blank">https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/tailings</a>) or of litter-strewn beaches, or could be of some other way in which the natural landscape has had a harmful or poisonous substance introduced into it.
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Something caught my eye in this photo. The harmonious combination of horizontal and diagonal lines, the remote point of the shooting, brings calmness to the picture. At the same time, the plot of the photograph causes anxiety. The photo is an example of a modern landscape, literally and figuratively.