Photograph by Jade Doskow

Image Title: Volunteer Trees, Winter

Year: 2021

Paper Dimensions (H x W): 16x21

Image Dimensions (H x W): 14x18.68

Edition: AP 1

Signed on sticker that can be attached to the print.

Image Description: This photograph is from the photographer's long-term archive of the radical transformations at Freshkills Park in NYC. In operation from 1948-2001, Freshkills Landfill in Staten Island became the largest household garbage dump globally, receiving 150 million tons of New York City's solid waste during that time. Staten Islanders and others fought to have the site closed for years, and in 2001 Fresh Kills was finally closed. In the early 2000s the idea of transforming landfills to wilderness parks entered the civic conversation, and thus began a radical transformation. Today, Fresh Kills is the largest landfill-to-park transformation on the planet.

Doskow is the Photographer-in-Residence at Freshkills.

Photographer's Bio: New York-based architectural and landscape photographer holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and is best-known for her work Freshkills, Lost Utopias and Red Hook. She was the subject of the 2021 documentary Jade Doskow: Photographer of Lost Utopias; the film has screened internationally at film festivals and at cultural institutions. Doskow's photographs have been featured in The New York Times, Aperture, Photograph, Architect, Wired, Smithsonian Magazine, and other publications. She is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography and the CCNY/ College of Staten Island and is the Photographer-in-Residence of Freshkills Park, NYC.

www.jadedoskowphotography.com