The New Topographics Tradition Is More Relevant Than Ever

If you shoot landscapes or documentary work and haven't revisited the New Topographics photographers — Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, the Bechers — this is a decent prompt to do so, because the tension they identified between human industry and the natural world has only intensified. The practical takeaway: your local sprawl is legitimate subject matter, and treating it with the same rigour as wilderness photography is a creative choice worth making.