J. Henry Fair

J. Henry Fair (* in Charleston ) is a photographer, environmental activist, and co-founder and director of the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem , NY. Fair now lives and works in New York .

Industrial scars

Fair was best known for his series of photos, Industrial Scars . For this project, the artist deals with energy generation, agricultural mass production and large-scale industrial production. With small airplanes he circles over inaccessible industrial areas and photographs factories, sewage plants or coal mining areas from a bird's eye view. Central themes of his work are the visualization of the elusive processes of global warming, environmental pollution and destruction, and the position that art takes in this context.

With his photos, Fair drew attention to environmental problems in various regions of the world. In Germany, the lignite mining areas in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lusatia, which he photographed in recent years, are among them. Photos from the Industrial Scars series have already been seen in the USA, Asia and Europe. Fair attaches specific information on the documented environmental problems to the abstract images. Visitors to his exhibitions are informed about acute issues of environmental protection, such as chemical reactions in fertilizer production or the consequences of factory farming . The photographer's largest single show to date - Dead Earth, Beautiful Shine - was shown in autumn 2011 by the KOMM education department in Nuremberg. As a photographer, Fair also works with environmental organizations such as NRDC , Rainforest Alliance and Greenpeace .

Wolf Conservation Center

J. Henry Fair is the co-founder and director of the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) environmental organization in South Salem, NY. The WCC is committed to the protection of wild wolves and provides information about the life of these animals, their role in the ecosystem and the role of humans in securing their future. The center regularly organizes information events on the subject of wolves, supports the release of the animals in suitable, state-designated areas and also provides protected habitat for some of the wolves to observe their natural behavior. WCC is the largest facility in the east of the United States dedicated to the rearing and release of endangered wolves.

Fair is also known as a portrait photographer in the music and art scene. He portrayed artists such as Yo-Yo Ma , Isaac Stern and Cecilia Bartoli , among others .

publication

• Industrial Scars: The Hidden Costs of Consumption , Papadakis Books, London 2016. ISBN 978-1-906506-61-2
• The Day After Tomorrow. Images of Our Earth in Crisis , powerHouse Books, New York 2011 ISBN 978-1-57687-560-5

References

Web links

• J Henry Fairs homepage
• Wolf Conservation Center
• Industrial Scars Homepage
• Featured on NBC's Today Show
• art: The art magazine
• The Boston Globe
• Article on CNN
• Harper's

Newspaper articles

• Visions of Earth . In: National Geographic , March 2007
• Right to sunshine . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 27, 2007
• Factory farming . In: Discover Magazine , May 2008
• Earth in the balance . In: The Boston Globe , July 2008
• The burned-up future . In: Die tageszeitung , August 1, 2008
• What is this? . In: Discover Magazine, October 2008
• Artist portrait . In: Industrie-Kultur, January 2009
• Orgies of color made of poison . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 21, 2011

Exhibitions

• ifa (Institute for Foreign Relations) : Scenery of nature - dance on the volcano . 2008. With catalog.