Towers and Devices of An Alien Race

• Photographer
  Lawrence Russ
• Photo Date
  2021-2024

In seeing these constructions afresh, apart from naming conventions or economic functions or intellectual cliches, part of what struck me was that the objects and scenes in front of me looked just as much like futuristic or alien products as they did like human artifacts of the past or present, with their own kind of mystery, power, and beauty. But another reason for my series title was that when I consider the functions of some of these structures, and the effects of their uses, I can’t help but think of ways in which we human beings are indeed a kind of alien race on this planet.

Lawrence Russ received a Master of the Fine Arts degree from the Writing Program of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he was one of two Honorary Fellows in Poetry. He published prose and poetry in many journals and anthologies, and was a First Runner-up for the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His photographic work, to which he's been dedicated for the last 23 years, has been chosen in international competition for exhibition, publication or honors by galleries, museums, magazines, and centers in every region of the U.S., and in global awards competitions including this one.