Jo Syz is a photographer who records human's impact on their environment. He records the traces of our political, social and economic world on the geographic landscape that we inhabit.

 

'Coal River Mountain' is an ongoing photographic project that records landscapes and communities affected by Mountain Top Removal Strip Mining (MTR) in the Appalachian Mountains. West Virginia is one of the poorest states in America, with one of the most bio diverse forestlands in the world. The practice of Mountain Top Removal, to extract coal for domestic electricity production, has destroyed thousands of acres of mountain wilderness in this region.

 

'Peripheries: British Landscapes' explores the boundaries between public, military and state space. The series is a record of military bases, training areas and industrialised landscapes accessible from public byways and paths.

 

Current Exhibition:

'Peripheries: British Landscapes'

Great Eastern Bear Gallery,

8A Great Eastern Street EC2

Opening Hours: Thurs-Sun, 11-6.30

Until Sat 28th April