David Benjamin Sherry talks color, identity, and at-risk spaces -- Read and share our stories!
View from Muley Point I, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, 2018 | Courtesy of David Benjamin Sherry, Morán Morán, and Salon 94 Gallery |
On April 26, 2017, President Trump signed Executive Order 13792, giving then Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke authority to assess the designations of all national monuments made since 1996. It took only 45 days from that initial swipe of his pen for Trump and his cohorts to set in motion the first of many reviews that would undo decades of environmental progress made by several presidential administrations, public land advocate groups, and Indigenous communities that had worked tirelessly to secure these federal protections. “As I began to understand what the Trump Administration was planning to do, I did more research and realized the magnitude of these national monuments,” recalls David Benjamin Sherry, a landscape photographer whose focus is the sprawling vistas and wild beauty of the Western United States. “I knew what I had to do: I needed to revisit these places and see them and document them.” |
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