Behind the Photos: Russel Albert Daniels' aerial landscapes reveal industrial degradation in the west

The White River winds its way through the Uinta Basin in northeast Utah. Fracking sites, the Deseret Power Plant and the Uinta Mountains in the background. Photo: Russel Albert Daniels Russel Albert Daniels' aerial landscapes of the Uinta Basin are stunning, but if you spend a bit of time with the photographs, you will realize they reveal a much darker reality. His project, Mother Wound, takes a bird's eye view of the environmental damage that the fossil fuel industry has caused to the region - ...