About the Artist
Geoff Delanoy is a visual artist whose work includes analog photography, digital imaging, and installation. Prints and an eponymous artist’s book from his project Trees were recently featured at Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Gimpo, South Korea, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, Griffin Museum-Photography, Winchester, MA, and Photo Book Athens, in Greece. He resides in Baltimore where he is a Professor and Chair of the Art department at Notre Dame of Maryland University.
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Artist's Statement
These photographs are part of an ongoing body of work, Ghost Forest, documenting the impact of climate change on the landscape, primarily within the Chesapeake Bay watershed. These images from coastal Maryland and Delaware explore forest diebacks known as ghost forests. The mid-Atlantic is among the places in the United States where sea levels are rising at a faster level. As sea levels rise, saltwater kills coastal trees, converting the landscape into a tidal marsh.
