Ryan Zoghlin travels across the country photographing the technological implants we place in the natural environment to sustain our industrial life. Water tanks, oil wells, satellite dish, cooling towers, fields of windmills and observatories become obdurate objects through Zoghlin's lens; he does not give us enough context to show their relationship with their surroundings, but lets bode forth as alien invaders, "as though they had dropped from the sky." Zoghlin's fascination with his subjects comes through effectively in his black and white prints, which deploy chiaroscuro sensitivity to heighten his signature mood of brooding intimate estrangement; we are kept at bay by these technological monuments and the power that they activate, but we cannot take our eyes off them as we absorb the lesson that we exist by creating inhuman things.
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