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INDUSTRIALIZED: A Photobook (2015)

It would appear, when considering man's relationship with the world, that we have created an intense conflict between technology and nature.

Factories, smokestacks, chimneys and machinery. Broken-down industrial buildings, decaying walls, industrial waste and detritus... These are remnants of a lost world, when factories were proud milestones of progress, today deserted wastelands, scenarios for stories with loaded bitter emotions. These desolate industrial landscapes without a human soul in sight depict our society today, a society of young and old who took Nature's existence for granted, turned their backs and welcomes destruction rather than gratitude and appreciation. An industrialized generation.

Have we become soulless and cold-hearted robots and machines - pitiful subjects of intellectual slavery, a byproduct of modern capitalism?

The modern human world, with intervention of technology, crossed the lines and brought to natural habitats nothing but destruction. Nature, on the other hand, invincible and powerful, cannot be defeated or overcome, has retaliated. Will this battle ever see an end?

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Industrialized was created in Spring 2015 by Leah Do, a collection of photographed industrial landscapes best inspired by David Lynch's The Factory Photographs. The exampled locations include Benicia and Vallejo industrial park, town of East Nicolaus, Port of Oakland, Altamont Pass Wind Farm, Richmond's Chevron factory, Isleton's sugar mill and canneries, Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station, Kiefer Landfill in Sacramento county and other industrial sites found in Northern California, USA.

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