CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/16/2025

Mitch Epstein's take on power and climate change

“Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond, West Virginia” (2004) is from new release Mitch Epstein: American Nature, collecting the noted American photographer’s most recent series, American Power (2003–9), Property Rights (2017–20) and Old Growth (2020–24). “It represents both a political portrait of the nation during this pivotal time and an existential warning about a potentially cataclysmic future,” editor Brian Wallis writes. “Even though the threat of climate change is very real and it affects us daily, the causes and consequences are often hard to articulate, much less represent. Mitch Epstein’s monumental achievement in his overarching work of the past two decades has been to communicate the intangible networks of production and power that threaten our environment and to listen to and record the visions of people in protest, as well as the gentle thrum of the enduring forest.”