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from The Fund for Environmental Journalism.
As a Community Fellow with the Open Society
Institute (Baltimore), he co-directed the
innovative program Healing Images, providing
digital cameras, instruction and therapy to
survivors of torture. His current projects
investigate the rise of wind energy in the
Midwest, the precarious conditions of Burmese
Chin refugees in India, the upsurge of diabetes
in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the social and
environmental impacts of Marcellus Shale gas
development in Pennsylvania.
Steven Rubin
Steven Rubin is an Associate Professor of Art in
the Photography Department at Penn State
University. Previously, he worked for more than
twenty years as a freelance photojournalist
and documentary photographer, traveling on
assignment around the world and throughout
the United States.
His photographs have been published in The
New York Times Magazine, National Geographic,
Time, Newsweek and The Village Voice,
and internationally in Stern, GEO, Focus,
L’Express and The London Independent Magazine,
among numerous other publications.
His work has been exhibited across the United
States and in Europe, Asia and Central
America. A Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in
northeast India, he is also the recipient of the
Leica Medal of Excellence, a New York
Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship, a
Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, an Alicia
Patterson Journalism Fellowship and a grant
“The photographs and poem included in the
exhibition are part of Shale Play, a book of
documentary poems and color photographs
created between 2012 and 2017 with poet
Julia Spicher Kasdorf, in response to the rush
to exploit the Marcellus Shale natural gas
formation in Pennsylvania by means of the
controversial well stimulation method commonly
called fracking.
The photograph here depicts a farm silo and
Chevron gas condensate tanks on the Honsaker
Farm in Masontown, German Township,
Fayette County, Pennsylvania. In many Pennsylvania
communities, farmers no longer find
dairy and crop farming profitable, but they
can gain substantial profit from leasing their
land for natural gas development.”
Steven Rubin | April 2018
Silo and Chevron gas condensate tanks
Pigmented inkjet print
41 x 61 cm | 2015
www.stevenrubin.com