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Photographers Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, utilizing props, staging, and poetic license, demonstrate an ability to distill and redress complex environmental problems and failed technological systems with resourcefulness and dark humor. Robert ParkeHarrison appears in every picture as the Everyman, in a black suit and white shirt, focusing his efforts on restoring and listening to the earth.
The New York Times has described this Everyman as “patiently, dutifully doing a job that’s too big for him. A job to take care of a devastated Earth with inadequate equipment. Everyman works or performs obscure rituals in large and empty landscapes beneath gray skies. Perhaps this is one man’s private way of saying that neither pollution, global warming nor digitalization can entirely extinguish the hands-on experience and human desire to create.”
For the ParkeHarrisons, the theme of the individual human responsibility is recast in a new photographic language resonant with the complexities and uncertainties of present-day life, and greater dependency on the land and its resources.