Abstract
When I discovered Jonathan Marquis’s cameraless photographic work, I found myself entranced. As a filmmaker primarily focused on environmental documentary narratives, I often record digital images of a world I fear we are losing. Perhaps especially because camera electronics transform light and dark shapes into digital pixels, I try to make my images as tactile and sensory as possible so that we may become within a place. Jonathan Marquis’s cyanotype series, Downwaste, created in Glacier National Park, raises questions about photography, time, place, and agency as the climate changes and the glaciers melt. I had the good fortune to spend some time interviewing him about his work. What follows is our discussion.
Highlights
Kathy Kasic: Jonathan, I thoroughly enjoyed looking at your photographic series and thinking about your process of making it
KK: It has been reported, by the US Geological Survey and subsequently the New York Times, among other sources, that Glacier National Park is losing its glaciers at an unprecedented rate as a result of climate change
When I first started working with this subject in 2014, I was seeing mostly repeat photography that tracked glacial retreat, and I felt that this heavy emphasis on loss obscured some of the active, complex, and overlapping realities of humans and ice on the ground
Summary
Kathy Kasic: Jonathan, I thoroughly enjoyed looking at your photographic series and thinking about your process of making it. Jonathan Marquis’s cyanotype series, Downwaste, created in Glacier National Park, raises questions about photography, time, place, and agency as the climate changes and the glaciers melt.
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