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"This is all pink and attractive, but we are going to die."
Russian-born American photographer Anastasia Samoylova, whose work is currently on display at both the Met Museum in New York and the Saatchi Gallery in London, has garnered critical acclaim for her subtle, anxiety-inducing images of Florida's collapsing pastel-pink landscapes.
Cracked bubblegum-colored concrete, flooded swimming pools, uprooted palm trees and displaced alligators paint a new, unnerving picture of the climate crisis. Samoylova's images are a far cry from the visual language of starving polar bears and blazing wildfires that often saturate conversation around the environment. "Everything is intertwined," she said. "That's why I think isolating climate change as something detached and abstract, and visually associated with melting ice caps, is very dangerous because we're in the moment right now. Every political decision is going to affect us on this daily basis."
Samoylova believes the medium of photography comes with a responsibility to "reflect on our time." And currently, our time is defined by climate change.
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