Join acclaimed photographer Richard Misrach and writer/activist Rebecca Solnit for a timely meditation on the profound impact of global trade on the environment. Misrach’s new book, Cargo, features photographs of cargo ships to and from the Port of Oakland taken in 2021, on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, and an introduction by Rebecca Solnit.
Richard Misrach is known for his large-scale color images that explore human impact on the environment. His Desert Cantos series captures the haunting beauty of human-made disasters in the desert. Other notable works document post-Hurricane Katrina, the industrial corridor dubbed “Cancer Alley” along the Mississippi River, and Petrochemical America, a collaboration with landscape architect Kate Orff examining the environmental and health effects of oil dependency.
Rebecca Solnit is a sharp, influential voice on topics ranging from feminism to the environment, western history to literary criticism, and from hope and disaster to popular power and social change. She has written over twenty books, including Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, Recollections of My Nonexistence, as well as a trilogy of atlases of American cities. Her forthcoming essay collection is No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain.