Freshkills, A New Kind of Wilderness with Jade Doskow
Freshkills, A New Kind of Wilderness with Jade Doskow
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, Sept. 18th, 7 pm EDT
Jade Doskow, as the Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park in New York’s Staten Island, has been creating a massive photographic record of this notorious site as it transforms from the world’s largest household waste dump to one of New York’s largest parks. In Doskow’s photographs the paradoxical but also abstract nature of this site becomes clear, through epic landscapes reminiscent of Hudson River School paintings and surreal presentations of infrastructure and engineering that enable the site to function.
Together we will explore what our shared understanding of such terms as ‘landscape’ and ‘wilderness’ imply. In today’s world, with an increasingly fraught relationship between humanity and the natural world, can an understanding start to shift of what a natural parkland looks like and how it functions?
This rich and inspiring conversation will be facilitated by Liz Titone.
Jade Doskow is a New York-based artist, photographer and educator. Her photo-based practice operates at the intersection of humanity, urbanism and nature, and in the process of these works questions the im/possibility of photographic documentation. Doskow is best-known for her long-term projects Freshkills, Lost Utopias, and Red Hook. She holds a BA from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, and is currently on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts and the City University of New York. Doskow is the subject of the 2021 documentary by filmmaker Philip Shane 'Jade Doskow: Photographer of Lost Utopias,' which screened internationally at film festivals. Doskow is a contributing environmental photojournalist with the New York Times. Her work has been reviewed and featured in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Aperture, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. She is the Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park. She lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with her husband, son, their two cats and a turtle.
Follow Jade on Instagram @j_doskow
