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Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.

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Issue 80, Spring 2013

February 28, 2013

Ravanging Beauty

By J Henry Fair

Photographs of the Texas Gulf Coast

The landscape photography of J Henry Fair explores the permeable boundary between unearthly beauty and unspeakable environmental destruction. These aerial photographs, part of Fair’s ongoing “Industrial Scars” project, were taken over the Gulf Coast of Texas in December 2012.  

 

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J Henry Fair

J Henry Fair’s work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Die Zeit, Le Figaro, and Scientific American. His book Industrial Scars: The Hidden Costs of Consumption was published by Papadakis of London. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Fair is now based in New York City and Berlin.

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