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The Changing Landscape
Images From Coalbed Methane Country
Patrick Smith, a regionally acclaimed photographer, will be
exhibiting at the Good Earth Market Apple Gallery, May 7 –
July 31.
The Changing Landscape: Images From Coalbed Methane Country
gives the viewer a glimpse into land transformation by the
gas extractive industry in Wyoming in 2005-2006. The exhibit
will generate conversations in the coming months, including
workshops at the Good Earth Market, about the impacts of
this energy production system.
The oil colored black and white silver
prints tell Patrick Smith’s story of working at emissions
testing for methane companies in the basin and watching the
effects humans had on the land.
“A once open area of quiet solitude has become a beehive of
activity,” Smith says. “CBM well heads are designed to be
subtle affairs. The pipes coming up from the coal beds are
covered with rectangular fiberglass shelters colored to
match the surrounding landscape. They are so plentiful in
the Powder River Basin that you might feel there is some
type of alien invasion happening and no one is sounding the
alarm.”
Patrick Smith has a BFA in photography from Louisiana
Tech University and recently had a solo exhibition at
the Paris Gibson Square in Great Falls. His photographs
are in several public and private collections throughout
the country.
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