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Cell phone chargers, Atlanta, 2004 Chris Jordan, 2004, archival inkjet print, 44″ x 66″, © 2004, courtesy of the artist Pledge Chris Jordan With his powerful images of mass consumption, Chris Jordan issues a clear directive to mankind: it is time to sweat the small stuff. In isolation, individual purchases of electronics, single-serving foods, and…

Armadillo Cecilia Paredes, 2002, 140 cm x 78 cm, performance registered in photography, © 2002, courtesy of Daniel Yankelewitz Collection, Costa Rica and the artist. Pledge Cecilia Paredes Cecilia Paredes is a Peruvian performance artist and photographer whose dramatic transformations are inspired by social and environmental concerns. In a powerful body of work that combines human…

Scenes from the Lives of Words Chester Arnold, 2008, 18″ x 22″, oil on canvas, © 2008, courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery and the artist Pledge Chester Arnold Chester Arnold is a San Francisco Bay Area oil painter whose works explore contemporary landscapes. Each of his naturalistic paintings is a scene in the narrative, a…

Rató, Spirit of waterfalls, Pemon culture, Venezuela Antonio Briceño, 2005, 83 x 150 cm, cibachrome print, © 2005, courtesy of the artist Pledge Antonio Briceño Antonio Briceño is a Venezuelan photographer and biologist whose work promotes the conservation of nature and indigenous cultures. In his dramatic body of work entitled “Gods of America,” Briceño creates…

Iceberg IX (Greenland) Sebastian Copeland, 2010, archival pigment print, 52 x 78 inches, © 2010, courtesy of Bernheimer Gallery and the artist Pledge Sebastian Copeland Sebastian Copeland is a photographer, explorer and climate advocate whose captivating images of polar landscapes transport us to the frozen regions of our planet. Copeland captures the ever-changing beauty of…

Persephone’s Reflection Nicole Dextras, 2015, photograph, garment made from pomegranate peels, dates, fruit leather, bark and thorns, © 2015, courtesy of the artist Pledge Nicole Dextras Nicole Dextras is an environmental artist whose ephemeral works celebrate sustainability and highlight our essential connection to nature. She works with natural materials, such as ice and plants, and uses their…

Oil Spill #12 Daniel Beltrá, 2010, digital chromogenic print, 40″ x 60″, © 2010, courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago and the artist Pledge Daniel Beltrá Daniel Beltrá captures the profound beauty and vulnerability of the natural world in his photographs of natural landscapes and wildlife. Primarily a landscape photographer, Beltrá combines painterly abstraction with the haunting details…

Library Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber, 2007, archival pigment print, 48″ x 60″, © 2007, courtesy of Clamp Art Gallery and the artists Pledge Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber are Brooklyn-based artists whose dioramas and miniatures are captured in unsettling photographs. Lori Nix, who grew up in a small, rural…

Bao Steel #8, Shanghai, China Edward Burtynsky, 2005, chromogenic print, © 2005, courtesy of Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Howard Greenberg Gallery, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York and the artist Pledge Edward Burtynsky In his large-scale color photographs, Edward Burtynsky explores landscapes that have been transformed by human enterprise. He was led to this body…

Cycle of quarter-days observances, circa 23800 b.c., May Day, Les Eyzies Verne Dawson, 1999, oil on canvas, 82 x 100 inches, © 1999, courtesy of Gavin Brown’s enterprise and the artist Pledge Verne Dawson In his fanciful oil paintings, Verne Dawson creates timeless scenes that convey humanity’s relationship with the natural world. He portrays people in verdant…