category: ENERGIES
file under: #Iceland #pacificplate #energy #tectonicplate #geothermal #hotpools
Rift/Fault documents the shifting edges of the North American Plate: the eastern boundary in Iceland, along the North Atlantic Rift, where it meets the Eurasian Plate and the San Andreas Fault in California, along the Pacific Plate. In Iceland the land along the Rift is unstable and raw, as the two tectonic plate edges are pulling apart. My images portray pipes that carry steam for geothermal electricity, hot pools, volcanic remnants, homes along the Ridge, and the raw, empty landscape.
BIO
Marion Belanger is an has photographed the cultural landscape for almost two decades. She is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Scandinavian Fellowship, Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships, and has been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Arts and Everglades National Park. The artist earned a M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art where she was the recipient of both the John Ferguson Weir Award and the Schickle-Collingwood Prize, and a B.F.A. from the College of Art & Design at Alfred University. Her photographs are included in many permanent collections including the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Yale University of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and the International Center of Photography. She was the 2007 Photographer Laureate of Tampa, FL. Belanger is the author of Everglades: Outside and Within, published by The Center for American Places at Columbia College, and the forthcoming Rift/Fault, with Radius Books. She resides in Guilford, Connecticut, USA.
www.marionbelanger.com
