Sarah Christianson
When the Landscape is Quiet Again: North Dakota's Oil Boom
Since 2012, I have been documenting the legacy of oil booms and busts in my home state of North Dakota. My photographs bear witness to the transformation of its quiet agrarian landscape into an industrialized zone dotted with well sites, criss-crossed by pipelines, illuminated by natural gas flares, contaminated by spills, and fracked beyond recognition.
