Steven Benson

Steven Benson’s website

http://www.stevenbensonphotographer.com/

"It was very strange to imagine that the photographs I was making in 1999 would suddenly become ‘historic’ records of a part of the world that would no longer exist as of June 10, 2003 when the reservoir filled.  The disappearance of 36,000 square miles of our planet was not the result of an erupting Mt. Vesuvius - it was the result of the human decision making process at its most destructive. It is my hope that this body of work, in conjunction with the photographs and written records of my colleagues, might somehow function as a warning to future generations to never make this mistake again."
Steven Benson

Steven Benson, Bamboo Factory, Chamgshou

Steven Benson, Farmer, Wanxian

Steven Benson, Friends, Fuling

Steven Benson, New Harbor, Chongqing

Steven Benson, Three Gorges Dam, China