Photographs of the Rare Beauty in Industrial Landscapes

Who? Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata is renowned for his breathtakingly poetic musings on the juxtaposition between man-made structures and the landscape they inhabit. He uses a large-scale camera and wide-angle lens to capture enormous industrial constructions and their natural surroundings, creating unusual compositions that confuse the viewer’s sense of scale (he often removes references to sky and horizon for this purpose). The resulting images…