Angle of Draw

Angle of Draw examines the relationship between photography and visual propaganda by investigating the fossil fuel industry's use and misuse of the medium.

Through the lenses of the natural landscape and propaganda imagery, Angle of Draw scrutinizes the intersections of power, sustainability, and whiteness in the United States. In this series, I draw from American publicity campaigns and photographic textbooks to create starkly lit black-and-white photographs and multiple exposure in-camera collages in the studio and the physical landscape. Throughout my process, I consider the impact of the fossil fuel industry on the natural environment, local economy, and future prospects of those left behind by corporations. The resulting series of images considers how framing the imagery impacts the national imagination—upholding social, political, and economic control systems. The simplicity of the photographic frame and its ability to crop, mimic, and repeat itself becomes an omnipresent weapon to censor nonbelievers and advertise a capitalist and androcentric ideology.