HAYLEY MILLAR BAKER IN USA FOR OPENING OF SECOND NATURE: PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE AGE OF THE ANTHROPOCENE

Hayley Millar Baker is travelling to the USA this week, and will be in North Carolina for the opening of Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, the first major exhibition to examine the Anthropocene (the new geological epoch in which human activity has had a marked impact on the global climate) through the lens of contemporary photography.  Hayley’s work Even if the race is fated to disappear, no. 7 (Peeneeyt Meerreeng / Before, Now, Tomorrow) features both in the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue publication.

Comprised of 45 photo-based artists working in a variety of artistic methods from studios and sites across the globe, Second Nature explores the complexities of this proposed new age.

Collectively, these artists offer compelling visual imagery necessary for picturing the Anthropocene: aerial views of beautiful but toxic sites, collages that incorporate archival photographs to counter colonial narratives, depictions of urbanism on an unimaginable scale, and imagined yet precarious futures. In doing so, they address urgent issues such as vanishing ice, rising waters, and increasing resource extraction, as well as the deeply rooted and painful legacies of colonialism, forced climate migration, and socio-environmental trauma.

Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene
Opening event: Thursday 29.O8.2O24, 6.3O – 8.3Opm
Exhibition dates: 29.O8.2O24 – O5.O1.2O25
The Nasher Museum of Art
Duke University
2OO1 Campus Drive
Durham, North Carolina 277O5 USA

Image: Hayley Millar Baker, Even if the race is fated to disappear, no. 7 (Peeneeyt Meerreeng / Before, Now, Tomorrow) 2O17, inkjet print on cotton rag paper, 14O x 😯 cm. Edition of 7 + 2AP.