The Anthropocene defines Earth’s most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans. The word combines the root “anthropo”, meaning “human” with the root “-cene”, the standard suffix for “epoch” in geologic time. The Anthropocene is… Read more

Realism is the technical and philosophical basis of Western society. The world exists outside of our concepts of it. Empirical science, for example, is a process of observation of that world. Through the photographic process documentary photography retained an the indexical link to reality through the capturing of light reflected from an actual object in… Read more