Join Corson Androski for a talk about the history of landscape photography, conservation, and colonialism. Using the work of William Henry Jackson--an Omaha based photographer celebrated for his role in founding the country's first National Park--as a point of departure, Before Parks delves into the history of nature photography and land management conventions. A closer examination of Jackson’s work reveals a complicated legacy of serious human and ecological harm in Yellowstone and beyond, while opening space to reimagine critically engaged models of documenting and caring for the land.

Before Parks is part of Tigerbeetle, Wintercreeper, a collaborative exhibition between Madeline Cass and Corson Androski, that brings together two practices devoted to complicated places close to home. Considering what remains in the seams of our patchwork flyover states, the exhibit grieves our region's particular losses while celebrating the unique ways of knowing and caring for the land which are only possible here.

About Corson:

Corson Androski is a researcher, conservationist, software developer, and photographer/filmmaker from Hutchinson, Kansas. Their work uses the concept of care (as labor, affect, and ethic, given/received by humans and other-than-humans, individuals, and systems) to consider emergent communities of illness alongside informal conservation of the small, overlooked ecosystems of weeds and fungi that spring up in the seams of our patchwork flyover state. Corson was awarded one of Amplify’s Artist Support Grant recipients in 2019 and is an Alternate Currents Working Group Member in 2020.