My eye is drawn to the debris and then through the space to walk through between two small embankments; then toward the horizon of scattered trees and the tilt of the landscape through the framing aslant. My eye ends on the muddy water pool to the right.
Mud against blue skies
The critical commentary offers quantitative data re acres of rainforest destroyed (that which appears to be immediately represented by the photo) and 40% of population affected by mercury contamination. There are no people in this photo, or in any of the photos. Is that deliberate? Is the idea not to put a human face on the toxicant contamination b/c it's too 'sentimental' or 'invasive'? This contrasts the Minimata photos of the clawed hand. Part of me wonders why there's an avoidance of representing the toxicity as embodied in the people--the miners: it this b/c neurological damage is hard to see on the surface of bodies?
deforested landscape; polluted water