Gowanus Wild
by Miska Draskoczy
Gowanus Wild is a photographic exploration of nature and wilderness in the contaminated industrial neighborhood of Gowanus, Brooklyn. As the Gowanus Canal has been declared a federal Superfund site and seen over 150 years of industrial abuse, the images reveal just how tenacious nature can be when faced with grave environmental destruction. Accompanying texts include an essay by Gowanus Canal Conservancy director Andrea Parker and nine poems and an essay by photographer Miska Draskoczy.
Press: The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Atlantic, KATALOG, Time Out
Photobook exhibitions: Vermont Center for Photography, Phoenix Art Museum, Davis Orton Gallery, Griffin Museum of Photography, Month of Photography Los Angeles
Collections: Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Collection
11.75" x 12.375", 57 color photographs, 120 pages
hardcover, velvet on boards, stamped text, w/ deluxe slipcase
printed on LumiSilk 170gsm
Collector's edition limited to 50 copies, includes 10" x 10" signed print
ISBN 978-0-9978163-1-0
Published in conjunction with the Gowanus Canal Conservancy
with support from Arts Gowanus
