Work in Progress - Peter Essick

Work in Progress is a dramatic presentation of Peter Essick's four-year project oflow-level aerial photographs of construction sites in the Atlanta Metro area.Essick said about his work, “It wasn't until I started flying a drone that I realizedconstruction sites offered so many different visual perspectives. The textures andcolors of human-altered landscapes are endlessly fascinating. Seeing andphotographing this landscape from the air has opened up for me new ways ofcreative expression. Construction sites change by the day, and the light andexposure are never the same. Wood, steel, and concrete relate to each other ininfinite varieties of order and disorder.” Work in Progress is a unique vision of a human-altered landscape.

Peter Essick is a photographer, author, speaker, instructor, and drone pilot who specializes in nature and environmental themes, who was named one of the 40 most influential nature photographers in the world by Outdoor Photography Magazine UK. His goal is to make photographs that move beyond mere documentation to reveal in careful compositions the human impact of development as well as the enduring power of the land. Dan Chapman is a longtime writer, reporter, and lover of the outdoors. He grew up in Washington D.C. and Tokyo, the son of a newspaper man and an English teacher. He worked for Congressional Quarterly, The Winston-Salem Journal, The Charlotte Observer, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has also reported from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He currently writes stories about conservation in the South for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.