Chemical Alterations 2012–2022 presents a photographic series by Doug Fogelson (b. 1970) that reflects the range of impacts caused by climate change around the planet. Using a process that combines traditional landscape photography with a chemical bath of toxic cleaning products to alter the original analogue film, Fogelson illustrates what are often invisible changes to the environment. Such changes culminate as disastrous events like fire, flood, drought, increasingly powerful storms, and overall global warming. Images of natural spaces that include mountains, deserts, volcanoes, jungles, oceans, rivers, and forests become represented in a state of flux. Through the processing of the film, traces such as bubbles, crystals, fingerprints, and dust are integrated into the images, probing the borderline of abstraction.

Doug Fogelson

Published by Kerber Verlag

Text by
Eiren Caffall, Jon Feinstein

Design by
Ryan Edmund Thiel

July 2023

ISBN 978-3-7356-0939-7

29,8 × 24,1 cm

112 pages

52 colored illustrations

Hardcover

Languages: English