Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattinglyâs Nomadographies

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ChapterÂ 7 Wear Your Shelter: Climate Change Photography and Mary Mattinglyâs Nomadographies

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004385474_009

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This essay investigates how climate change photographer and multimedia artist Mary Mattingly captures the dramatic impact humans exert on the environment during the Anthropocene. Its focus lies on her eco-critical ânomadographies,â in which she depicts a nomadic state of life in a hazardous environment. In her work, the supposedly ânaturalâ risks that force people out of their homes on a global scale, and leave them homeless, have already run their course. As this essay demonstrates, the post-civilization ecosystems Mattingly creates and then interprets via photography perform practices of living in an increasingly toxic world. At the same time, her nomadographies are understood as an imaginary search for making these worn-out places habitable once more. To show the potential for migration in future conditions, Mattingly populates them with survivors. If homes can no longer be inhabited in one stationary place, her work suggests, they can likely be wornâhugged closer to oneâs body.

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Picturing America

Photography and the Sense of Place

Series:Â Spatial Practices, Volume: 26

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 06 Dec 2018

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