When I first saw photos from David Maisel's project Terminal Mirage I didn't know what the idea behind the project was and found it very interesting how some of the photographs are clearly landscapes and some so abstract it was hard to tell what was actually being photographed! Most of David Maisel's recent projects are aerial photographs of places that for example pollution has changed dramatically. These are from a project called Terminal Mirage where he took aerial photographs of The Great Salt Lake in Utah, USA. Some of the beautiful colours in the photos come from minerals or other naturally occurring elements and some from deadly toxins. These photos are visually very interesting and so beautiful but at the same time I find them disturbing..
David Maisel has done other projects definitely worth taking a look! One similar to this is one called The Lake Project.
Another project with an interesting contrast between the beauty of the colourful photos and what they are actually of is called Library of Dust. He took photos of copper canisters where the ashes of unclaimed patients of a psychiatric hospital were stored. The canisters were moved into a small room and stacked onto pine shelves. After some time the canisters begun to react chemically with the human ashes inside them and created a mold-like mineral outgrowths. How can it look so beautiful?!
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