Light and Lens, 2nd Edition

A1.0 Laurie Türner states that this work “provides visualizations of ubiquitous synthetic pesticides. I borrow a technique developed by the environmental scientist Richard Fenske that uses fluorescent tracer dyes, UV light, and a camera to give farm workers simulated pictures of their pesticide exposure after applications. I apply the tracer technique to explore what it implies for those of us who are not farm workers, but are exposed daily to the same pesticides in our homes and neighborhoods through applications and drift. As theatrical simulations, often involving over 50 separate images, they function in the realm of the imagination, illuminating ...