Alex MacLean

Exhibitions: Festival of Photography: People and Nature

OPENING JUNE 5, 2009

People & Nature: One festival, Two passions

Created in 2004 by Jacques Roche, a man passionate about photography and art entrepreneur particularly attentive to the protection of Nature, People & Festival Photo Nature is preparing to inaugurate its 6th edition.

Open to all, completely free, the Festival will once again transform the Breton village of La Gacilly in real art gallery en plein air. 200 large format photographs will be presented without interruption for four months from 5 June to 30 September 2009.

For more information, visit the Festival's website

Gallery on St. Vincent StreetAlex MacLean: OVER Image © 2009 Eliza MacLean
   
Image © 2009 Eliza MacLean
   
Image © 2009 Eliza MacLean
     
  
Image © 2009 Eliza MacLean
   
Image © 2009 Eliza MacLean
   
Image © 2009 Eliza MacLean
     
  
Phoenix, AZThe Granite Reef Aqueduct, a man-made canal that has the carrying capacity of 1,800 cubic feet per second, diverts water from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu to central and southern Arizona. This aqueduct is part of the 4-million-dollar Central Arizona Project designed to bring water into arid municipalities including Phoenix and Tuscon, and irrigate farmland in central Arizona.Ref #: 041215_0199
   
Sun City, AZA main arterial road divides single-family and multifamily neighborhoods. Note the differencebetween individual, xeriscaped lawns and communal backyards with green lawns. The multifamily backyards are not clearly defined as private or public, which is likely to discourage their use.Ref #: 041215_0239
   
Phoenix, AZMassive highway interchanges connect urban centers and suburban ring roads. Little to no public transportation exists, leaving exurban dwellers with no alternative to the car.Ref #: 041217_0113
     
  
Congress, AZA wuarter-square-mile mixed development sits in the middle of the desert. This development consolidates all necessary public services into its small community. The nearest commercial settlement is five miles away. The nearest city, Phoenix, is 60 miles away. Ref #: 050213-0011
   
Signal, AZ A land development company has drawn out a grid of roads onto the desert to sell twenty-acre lots for speculation. Here, future homeowners will have to drill 600 ft. wells for water and generate their own electricity. Ref #: 050213-0060
   
Needles, CAThe Colorado River marks the California/Arizona border. As the river winds south, it picks up salinity from water withdrawals and evaporation from reservoirs. Reaching the border, water is so salty that it must run through a desalinization plant in order to cross into Mexico. By the time the river reaches the Gulf of California where it lets out, it is virtually empty. Ref #: 050214-0079
     
  
Sun City, AZSun City, located a half hour northwest of downtown Phoenix, was built in the 1960s by Dell E. Webb Development Company, as a planned community for retirees. Arizona developers construct artificial lakes to capitalize on waterfront property values. The lakes are built with an impervious liner to store groundwater for irrigating nearby golf courses.Ref #: 050216_0176
   
Sun City, AZSun City found it had so many RVs that, in 1983, it had to apportion a half-mile-long-by-quartermile-wide parking lot to accommodate its residents’ vehicles.Ref #: 050216_0231
   
Glendale, AZArrowhead Lakes, a wealthy master-planned gated community, uses a re-charge water system to maintain its man-made lakes. These lakes have their artificial re-charge water systems obtain their water from reservoirs and were created for purely aesthetic reasons. Ref #: 050216-0244
     
  
Las Vegas, NVDesert Shores, a planned community in northwest Las Vegas, has four man-made lakes. Ref #: 050308-0268
   
Las Vegas, NVThough drought conditions are the norm in the Las Vegas area, golf courses and large-scale luxury housing developments continue to be built onto the arid landscape.Ref #: 050308-0386
   
Boulder City, NVGolf courses in the Las Vegas metropolitan area account for 5% of the region's water usage. Pictured is a section of the 71-hole Cascata Golf Course, which has conserved 60 million gallons of water per year by increasing the aeration of the turf areas as well as changing some turf areas from Rye grass to Bermuda grass. Ref #: 050309-0288
     
  
Henderson, NevadaHousing Development at Different StagesRef #:050309_0209
   
Spinnerstown, PAParking lots at this small rural church are larger than the building itself, which has a seating capacity of more than 330.Ref #: 050608-0194
   
South Jordan, UTIsolated exurban communities built on cheap agricultural land depend on cars for nearly every activity. Ref #: 050618-0059
     
  
New York, NYCity golfers at the Chelsea Piers drive balls out onto the vaged pier on the Hudson River. Once a docking point for luxury ships in the early 20th century, the piers have been revitalized as a center for leisure with spas, sports facilities, and maritime centers.Ref #: 061015-0365
   
Ayer, MACars pile up at a junkyard for recycled auto parts. After the cars have been parted out they are crushed and sent to Michigan for metal recycling. Ref #: 061016-0312
   
Chicago, ILChicago City Hall's rooftop garden was planted in 2000 as part of the city's Urban Heat Island Initiative, which tests the effects of green roofs on urban air quality and temperature. Rooftop plants reflect heat (unlike standard black-tar roofs), filter the air, absorb rainwater, provide shade, and coll the air around them by secreting tiny water droplets through pores in their leaves.Ref #: 070517-0293
     
  
Eastpoint, FLA highway bridge and high-tension lines cross Apalachicola Bay. Demand for power in the United States has increased 25% since 1990, while construction of power lines has decreased 30% over the same time period.Ref #: 070627-0043
   
Biloxi, MSCompletely rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina, the Imperial Palace all-in-one casino, resort, and spa features a parking garage complete with a swimming pool oasis and guest arrival information.Ref #: 070627-0220
   
Galveston, TXHarborwalk is a planned waterfront community built on wetlands on the western coast of Galveston Bay. In the coming century this land will be some of the most vulnerable on the Texas coast to sea-level rise, yet developers continue to construct low-lying homes to cash in on waterfront property values.Ref #: 070630-0251
     
  
Chicago, ILFloating Daisy Docks on Lake MichiganRef #: LS_4392_09
   
Tehachapi, CA Five thousand wind turbines stretch out over the Tehachapi hills. Wind power represents only about 3 percent of installed electric generating capacity. The U.S. wind industry grew by 45 percent in 2007. Wind generators require no water for steam or cooling, no outside fuel for operation, and produce no greenhouse gases.Ref #: LS_4789_03