“He has a clear sense of how photographic seeing can help to clarify some of the more numinous truisms with which we operate, and to illustrate with sufficient sharpness of focus as to be incontrovertibly self-evident the scale of the struggle we’re faced with, should we have an interest in addressing ourselves to the challenge. To my mind, that gesture is in itself hopeful”

— excerpted from an extensive written feature and interview with photographer Jason Koxvold, up at the gallery site.

Jason Koxvold has an extensive, articulate and engaging body of landscape photography that combines authoritative beauty and compositional rigour with a deep-lying conceptual framework. He has focused to a large extent on photographing the kinds of odd anachronistic spaces thrown up by industrial development, and the way that these spaces come to imitate themselves in such a way that disparate landscapes in largely dissimilar countries become populated with a common architectural topology, underpinned by a common economic logic. In this sense his work documents the transnational face of globalisation, its formal vernacular as expressed photographically in economic landscapes.

Koxvold’s work assesses and interlinks the oddities of urban decay, rapid industrialisation and the infrastructures of free markets, uncovering the anomalous beauty of the interstitial spaces through which global trade and industrial development deliver goods and profits from one centre to another. At one and the same time this photographic work reflects upon the intersection of economic growth and environmental degradation. I hope to explore his work with him in greater detail in the coming month, but would also point to a broader selection up on Flickr.