Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape
About
Widening the Lens is a six-episode podcast series hosted by tennis champion, entrepreneur, and arts advocate Venus Williams. Each of the six episodes spotlights different facets of the relationship between photography and the environment. The podcast features artists, writers, poets, philosophers, and environmentalists in dialogue alongside archival audio, historical anecdotes, sonic experiences, and curatorial interviews.
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Carnegie Museum of Art
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Episodes(3)
Episode 1: The Archive
Landscape photographs contain a multitude of stories about natural spaces and the people connected to them. In the first episode of Widening the Lens, archaeologist Rachael Z. DeLue and historian Tyler Green critically examine dominant narratives about land, identity, and history generated by early
Episode 2: The Archive, Revisited
Photographic archives offer a powerful means to narrate history and produce knowledge, but how can they be used in a recuperative way to confront the past? Episode 2 brings together artist A.K. Burns and poet Natalie Diaz to reflect on lost landscapes and cultural erasure, while geologist Marcia Bjo
Episode 3: Dominion
The third episode of Widening the Lens looks at how artists are thinking about the history of public land and the ways in which discriminatory policies have long defined who has access to natural spaces. Ornithologist and writer J. Drew Lanham explores this tension through his family history, while