Richard Misrach

A leading photographer of his generation, Richard Misrach’s (b. 1949) monumental color photographs depict the complex relationship between humans and the natural world. Misrach began his photographic practice in Berkeley, California in the early 1970s, compelled to capture images of the city’s anti-war protests. His focus soon turned to landscape, a subject he has explored for over 50 years. Misrach has trained his lens on vast deserts of the American West to probe the ecological effects of human intervention; the land surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border to engage the politics of migration; and sweeping aerial landscapes and beachscapes to illuminate the sublime, tremendous power of the ocean.