Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape @ The Carnegie Museum of Art

Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled (Dune buggy), All American Canal, CA, 2021, inkjet print, 55 x 77 in. (139.7 x 195.6 cm), Courtesy the artist and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York

Photography has dramatically altered our access to, understanding of, and impact on the natural world. Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape examines environmental history and degradation, particularly in the American landscape, as well as urgent concerns about climate change, through the camera lens. Featuring nearly 100 works by 19 different artists with multiple museum premieres and new commissions, this exhibition invites you to reconsider your relationship to the environment and understand how photography helps envision alternative paths forward.

Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape is organized by Dan Leers, curator of photography, and Keenan Saiz, Hillman Photography Initiative project curatorial assistant.

Including work by: A.K. Burns, Chanell Stone, Cyprien Gaillard, David O. Alekhuogie, David Hartt, Dionne Lee, Edra Soto, Erin Jane Nelson, Fazal Sheikh, Justine Kurland, Lucy Raven, Mark Armijo McKnight, Melissa Catanese, Raven Chacon, Sam Contis, Sky Hopinka, Tomás Saraceno, Victoria Sambunaris, Xaviera Simmons

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May 11, 2024 - January 12, 2025

Carnegie Museum of Art

4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213