Sites at Risk of Climate Change: Night Landscape Photographs in The Netherlands, Steve Giovinco, Canal, Nieuw Land National Park, Clear Night, with Car Light Flevoland

Night Landscape Photographs in The Netherlands Made at Sites at Risk of Climate Change Supported by Grant Funding @SteveGiovinco

Netherlands-American Foundation Grant Supported Fine Art Night Landscape Photographic Project

Sites at Risk of Climate Change: Night Landscape Photographs in The Netherlands, Steve Giovinco, Canal, Nieuw Land National Park, with Light in Distance, Flevoland
Sites at Risk of Climate Change: Night Landscape Photographs in The Netherlands, Steve Giovinco, Canal Lock, Nieuw Land National Park, Near Almere, Red Glow on Clear Night, Flevoland
Sites at Risk of Climate Change: Night Landscape Photographs in The Netherlands, Steve Giovinco, Sustainable Energy, Strange Redish Light Fryslan, Flevoland
Sites at Risk of Climate Change: Night Landscape Photographs in The Netherlands, Steve Giovinco, Nieuw Land National Park, Locks in Fog with Plane Light in Sky, Frevoland
Sites at Risk of Climate Change: Night Landscape Photographs in The Netherlands, Steve Giovinco, Crops Corn in Fog, with Plane Light in Sky, Flevoland
Sites at Risk of Climate Change: Night Landscape Photographs in The Netherlands, Steve Giovinco, Wind Farm Sustainable Energy, Twilight with Beautiful Colors Fryslan, Flevoland
Sites at Risk of Climate Change: Night Landscape Photographs in The Netherlands, Steve Giovinco, Greenhouse Tulips, with Strange Glowing Light Flevoland with Tree

This project, funded by a grant in 2022, was made in two areas in The Netherlands.

First, I photographed in and near the Nieuw Land National Park in Flevoland. I became obsessed with the area because both the park and the province of Flevoland were created completely from reclaimed land in the 1960s and 1970s.

Nieuw Land National Park was initially allowed to revert to its natural setting and was populated with animal species that would have roamed the region thousands of years ago. There was an attempt to “re-wild” the park but this was reversed after local concerns. Like much of The Netherlands, Flevoland sits at or below sea level, and canals, locks, and other infrastructure carefully manages water levels.

The second region I photographed was the giant wind farm in Friesland. Set in the middle of a 30-mile-long dyke are about 90 turbines. Seen from the shore, the structures were balletic and magical in afternoon light and twilight; at night, they seem dystopian.

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