Stephanie Mitchell

About Stephanie Mitchell

Stephanie Mitchell is a professional photographer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, The Irish Times, Der Spiegel, and TIME magazine.

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Picturing the cost of power

By Stephanie Mitchell• Digital Storytelling• October 5, 2009

Mitch Epstein’s "American Power" depicts the landscape as political narrative. The American photographer, who has chronicled cultural complexities in India and Vietnam, now homes his camera in on dissonances within his own culture. The subject of "American Power" is energy in America—its production, consumption, and unintended consequences. And embedded in the terrain of the images is a critique of American power in the other sense of the word—its destructiveness and contradictions. Like an unflattering mirror, Epstein’s pictures reflect back the troublesome realities that the exercise of American power can create. Read the full essay. Read more