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Dave's Picks ICYMI | NPR β€’ Housing Projects And Empty Lots. Chanell Stone Reframes Nature Photography

Dave's Picks ICYMI | NPR β€’ Housing Projects And Empty Lots. Chanell Stone Reframes Nature Photography

California-based photographer Chanell Stone

is challenging the genre of nature photography, made popular in the 1900s by (typically white) men like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. The idea back then being that nature was remote, wild, and untouched β€” environments she notes in this NPR piece have too often been off limits or inaccessible to low income Black people.