The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar

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Photographer

Jamey Stillings
Date of Photograph

2014
Technical Info

Published by Steidl
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https://jameystillings.com/

In this book by Steidl, published in late 2015, Jamey Stillings synthesizes his environmental interests with a long-held fascination for the intersections of nature and human activity. In October 2010, before construction commenced, Stillings began a three-and-a-half year aerial exploration over what has become the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert of California. From the stark terrain of the pre-construction landscape to the angular forms of the completed solar plant with the capacity to produce 392 megawatts of electricity on 14 square kilometers of public land, Stillings explores transformative interactions between raw natural forms and the project’s precise geometric lines. Publisher: Steidl Designer: David Chickey Text: Robert Redford, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Bruce Barcott, Jamey Stillings

Biography

Jamey Stillings' multi-decade career spans documentary, fine art, and commissioned work. Since 2010, he has focused on renewable energy through an extended aerial photography project, Changing Perspectives: Renewable Energy & the Shifting Human Landscape. Stillings has photographed extensively over the United States, Japan, Uruguay, and Chile from helicopters and light airplanes. New US-based and international chapters of Changing Perspectives are under development.
Awards

Selected Awards 2024 Athens Photo Festival Book Award, Finalist 20th Pollux Awards, 2023, First Place, Documentary & Reportage, Professional International Photography Awards, 2023, Professional: Book, Monograph, Honorable Mention Photolucida Critical Mass TOP 50, 2023, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010 APA Awards 2017, Photojournalism and Editorial International Photographer of the Year 2016, First Place, Editorial: Environmental International Photography Awards 2016, Professional: Book Photographer of the Year, and Professional: Book, Monograph, First Place APA Awards 2016, First Place, Documentary/Editorial The Photo Review 2016 Competition, First Prize PDN Photo Annual, Photo Books, 2016