The imaginaries of northern landscape have not remained static in the era of ecological crisis
but play a pivotal function within the geopolitics of visual representation. Such imaginaries
can sanction those dominant discourses that frame environmental catastrophe as the consequence
of undifferentiated human activity but it is argued they also have the capacity to represent
a complexity and heterogeneity frequently absent from this broad discursive field. The
contributors to this volume engage with the practice curation and utilization of photography
and other lens-based media to examine the critical role of visual culture in shaping and
interrogating conceptions of environmental catastrophe.
