Critical Mass: Daniel Beltra

While in China for two weeks and because I may not have access to my blog, I am writing posts in advance. Beginning today and continuing through next week, I will be looking at portfolios that caught my eye in the Critical Mass jurying process. A number o

via LENSCRATCH: http://www.lenscratch.com/2011/11/critical-mass-daniel-beltra.html

The fragile state of our environment has been a continuous thread throughout my work. For this series, I spent two months in the Gulf on assignment for Greenpeace photographing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. These photographs explore the tenseness of the situation in the Gulf of Mexico as the oil seeps into an already challenged and complex ocean ecosystem. Though tragic, it is a fitting example of the vast scale of transformation our world is under from man-made stresses.