Dreaming in the Anthropocene / Chris Corson-Scott

Photographs by Chris Corson-Scott
Words by Chris Holdaway, design by Elliot Ferguson

Published June 2017
Edition of 250
ISBN 978-0-9941123-7-8

Quote Sometimes knowledge is paralysing, like the idea that even if all carbon emissions miraculously dropped to zero tomorrow, an unavoidable 2°C global temperature rise is already locked in—enough to trigger runaway climate change. Your small town is slowly drained of everything that once brought it to life, & sometimes things are so hopeless you can’t even manage to be hopeless.

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A collaboration between photographer Chris Corson-Scott and poet Chris Holdaway. Intense photographs, lyrical essay, and elegiac poetry combine to chart the artists’ trek through fading dreams of New Zealand’s industrial heritage. Human material endeavours threaten to send the planet into an uninhabitable death-spiral; manufacturing towns once bustling with life are discarded like the consumer goods they on...