NOTE: This is to register to attend IN PERSON at the Nature Center 
7:00 p.m on Monday May 11
The speaker, Benjamin Dimmitt, will be viewed on the big screen on Zoom.

This event will also be available via Zoom. If you prefer to watch at your home on ZOOM CLICK HERE. 

An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands is an examination of a unique North American ecosystem in decline, investigated through eighty-five duotone photographs, scientific analysis, and critical interpretation. The project’s focus is the area of the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge on Florida’s Gulf Coast and the history and fate of its wetlands.

Benjamin Dimmitt began photographing in the salt-damaged sawgrass savannas and spring creeks there as a way of examining and reckoning with the ecosystem loss and of understanding what was becoming of his native Florida. To document the progress of the saltwater intrusion, Dimmitt has rephotographed landscapes that he first photographed more than forty years ago. His photographs reveal the impact of several factors that are causing the loss of an entire ecosystem: rising sea levels caused by global warming, excessive pumping from the underground aquifer, and the contamination of limited natural resources.

This event will also be available via Zoom. If you prefer to watch at your home on ZOOM CLICK HERE.