Chapter One

Meltwater pools within crevasses created by the melting and subsequent stretching of the Greenland ice sheet, 60 km east of Ilulissat.

Daniel Beltrá
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2014
Ocotillo Wind

Jamey Stillings
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2017
When The Levees Broke — Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward return to see what remains of their property after Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Jay L. Clendenin
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2005
Forgotten in Dust — With the help of a Bogotá-based NGO, Maricela Uriana Epiayu is driven to a hospital shortly before her death in August 2016.

Nicolò Filippo Rosso
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2016
Forgotten in Dust — Maricela Uriana Epiayu, 22, a mother of two, suffered from severe malnutrition and diabetes and had lost her sight. She died from an infection in August 2016.

Nicolò Filippo Rosso
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2016
Forgotten in Dust — A protester carries a child-size paper coffin in Bogotá’s Bolívar Square to denounce the deaths of Wayuu children in La Guajira.

Nicolò Filippo Rosso
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2016
Spiraling - Great Salt Lake

Daniel Maisel
Photograph, Archival pigment, 202
An oil well in a region plagued by earthquakes. Crescent, Oklahoma.

John Francis Peter
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2014
Spiraling 14- Great Salt Lake

David Maisel
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2024
When the Landscape is Quiet Again: North Dakota’s Oil Boom, 2012-Present

Sarah Christianson
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2012
Fukushima — A monumental statue of Kannon, the Buddhist deity of mercy, stands in a blizzard. Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.

Q. Sakamaki
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2005
When The Levees Broke — Home in the Lower Ninth Ward. New Orleans, Louisiana

Jane Fulton Alt
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2005
Crude Awakening — Dawn and Everet

Jane Fulton Alt
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2010
A horse walks toward approaching flames during the lightning-sparked LNU Lightning Complex fires. Vacaville, California.

Noah Berger
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2020
When The Levees Broke — A church pew is covered in mud in the Ninth Ward. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Daniel Burnett
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2026
Where Have You Been? I Don’t Really Last 30 Years — Knotted and folded crisp bags; title taken from text printed on the bags.

Mandy Barker
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2018
Still (FFS) — FALLING - Flesh-Footed Shearwater. Dignity in death, after ingesting marine plastic pollution, Lord Howe Island, Australia (with a reflection of lava showing the volcanic formation of Lord Howe Island, Lord Howe Museum)

Mandy Barker
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2019
Still (FFS) — FALLING - Flesh-Footed Shearwater. Dignity in death, after ingesting marine plastic pollution, Lord Howe Island, Australia (with a reflection of lava showing the volcanic formation of Lord Howe Island, Lord Howe Museum)

Mandy Barker
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2019
When the Day Breaks — Harriet and people in fog. Zimbabwe.

Nick Brandt
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2020
Factory workers typically fall ill within one to two years on the job. Inner Mongolia.

Lu Guang
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2009
Yellow River from the Lasengmiao Industrial

Lu Guang
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2009
Submerged Portraits — Lorence Abraham. Igbogene, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

Gideon Mendel
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2012
Submerged Portraits — Lorence Abraham. Igbogene, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

Gideon Mendel
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2012
When the Day Breaks — Fatuma, Ali & Bupa. Kenya.

Nick Brandt
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2020
Crude Awakening — Dawn and Everet

Jane Fulton Alt
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2010
When The Levees Broke — A ruined floating casino is taken apart, piece by piece, Biloxi, Mississippi.

Daniel Burnett
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2026
Paths of oil-free water trace the calm surface of the Gulf of Mexico as boats work to clean up an oil spill off the Louisiana coast.

Daniel Beltrá
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2010
Ross Sea, Southern Ocean

Daniel Beltrá
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2007
Rachelle Sanders, evacuated during the Camp Fire, returns home hours after giving birth by c-section. Chico, California.

Gabrielle Lurie
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2018
A bed sits in the parking lot of Cypress Meadows Post-Acute Nursing Home, destroyed by the Camp Fire. Paradise, California.

Gabrielle Lurie
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2018
Homes of Bear Lake Estates leveled by the Almeda Fire. Phoenix, Oregon.

Noah Berger
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2020
Expanding solar and wind energy development in Chile’s Atacama Desert supplies power to the country’s mining industry while reducing its dependence on fossil fuels.

Jamey Stillings
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2022
Expanding solar and wind energy development in Chile’s Atacama Desert supplies power to the country’s mining industry while reducing its dependence on fossil fuels.

Jamey Stillings
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2022
Renewable energy and mining converge in Chile’s Atacama Desert, where solar and wind power are reducing the mining industry’s historic dependence on fossil fuels. Chile, 2017.

Jamey Stillings
Photograph, Archival pigment, 2017

Act One Gallery – Chapter One

A Century in the Making

October 22, 2026- February 22, 2027

Chapter One

Act One Gallery – Chapter One

A Century in the Making

October 22, 2026- February 22, 2027

Chapter One

Meltwater pools within crevasses created by the melting and subsequent stretching of the Greenland ice sheet, 60 km east of Ilulissat.

Ocotillo Wind

When The Levees Broke — Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward return to see what remains of their property after Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Forgotten in Dust — With the help of a Bogotá-based NGO, Maricela Uriana Epiayu is driven to a hospital shortly before her death in August 2016.

Forgotten in Dust — Maricela Uriana Epiayu, 22, a mother of two, suffered from severe malnutrition and diabetes and had lost her sight. She died from an infection in August 2016.

Forgotten in Dust — A protester carries a child-size paper coffin in Bogotá’s Bolívar Square to denounce the deaths of Wayuu children in La Guajira.

Spiraling - Great Salt Lake

An oil well in a region plagued by earthquakes. Crescent, Oklahoma.

Spiraling 14- Great Salt Lake

When the Landscape is Quiet Again: North Dakota’s Oil Boom, 2012-Present

Fukushima — A monumental statue of Kannon, the Buddhist deity of mercy, stands in a blizzard. Aizuwakamatsu, Japan.

When The Levees Broke — Home in the Lower Ninth Ward. New Orleans, Louisiana

Crude Awakening — Dawn and Everet

A horse walks toward approaching flames during the lightning-sparked LNU Lightning Complex fires. Vacaville, California.

When The Levees Broke — A church pew is covered in mud in the Ninth Ward. New Orleans, Louisiana.

Where Have You Been? I Don’t Really Last 30 Years — Knotted and folded crisp bags; title taken from text printed on the bags.

Still (FFS) — FALLING - Flesh-Footed Shearwater. Dignity in death, after ingesting marine plastic pollution, Lord Howe Island, Australia (with a reflection of lava showing the volcanic formation of Lord Howe Island, Lord Howe Museum)

Still (FFS) — FALLING - Flesh-Footed Shearwater. Dignity in death, after ingesting marine plastic pollution, Lord Howe Island, Australia (with a reflection of lava showing the volcanic formation of Lord Howe Island, Lord Howe Museum)

When the Day Breaks — Harriet and people in fog. Zimbabwe.

Factory workers typically fall ill within one to two years on the job. Inner Mongolia.

Yellow River from the Lasengmiao Industrial

Submerged Portraits — Lorence Abraham. Igbogene, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

Submerged Portraits — Lorence Abraham. Igbogene, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

When the Day Breaks — Fatuma, Ali & Bupa. Kenya.

Crude Awakening — Dawn and Everet

When The Levees Broke — A ruined floating casino is taken apart, piece by piece, Biloxi, Mississippi.

Paths of oil-free water trace the calm surface of the Gulf of Mexico as boats work to clean up an oil spill off the Louisiana coast.

Ross Sea, Southern Ocean

Rachelle Sanders, evacuated during the Camp Fire, returns home hours after giving birth by c-section. Chico, California.

A bed sits in the parking lot of Cypress Meadows Post-Acute Nursing Home, destroyed by the Camp Fire. Paradise, California.

Homes of Bear Lake Estates leveled by the Almeda Fire. Phoenix, Oregon.

Expanding solar and wind energy development in Chile’s Atacama Desert supplies power to the country’s mining industry while reducing its dependence on fossil fuels.

Expanding solar and wind energy development in Chile’s Atacama Desert supplies power to the country’s mining industry while reducing its dependence on fossil fuels.

Renewable energy and mining converge in Chile’s Atacama Desert, where solar and wind power are reducing the mining industry’s historic dependence on fossil fuels. Chile, 2017.