Abstract:
The aim of this work is to draw attention to three instances of significant environmental change occurring in Auckland by photographing places that will soon disappear. It is my hope that viewers might be provoked to reflect on some of the socio-political concerns implicit in the work, including – • the damage we are doing to our planet is cumulative. Every incidence of destruction, deforestation and loss of habitat for plants, animals, birds and insects, contributes to the destruction of our planet; • it is no longer an option “to choose the local against the global … the global is in the local, in the phenomenological particularity of everyday life.” In his book, Eco- Aesthetics, Malcolm Miles acknowledges that while place-based communities may be far-fetched in mobile, industrial societies, “the local is one polarity on an axis connecting it to the global. If globalisation is part of the problem, localisation may be part of the solution,” and, • there are wider social and cultural significances attaching to the loss of routine connections to the natural environment.