{"id":1124,"date":"2025-09-05T19:47:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/reframingphotography\/content\/resources\/artists\/steven-benson\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T21:20:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:20:30","slug":"steven-benson","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/reframingphotography\/resources\/artists\/steven-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Steven Benson\u2019s website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.stevenbensonphotographer.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It was very strange to imagine that the photographs I was making in 1999 would suddenly become \u2018historic\u2019 records of a part of the world that would no longer exist as of June 10, 2003 when the reservoir filled.  The disappearance of 36,000 square miles of our planet was not the result of an erupting Mt. Vesuvius – it was the result of the human decision making process at its most destructive. It is my hope that this body of work, in conjunction with the photographs and written records of my colleagues, might somehow function as a warning to future generations to never make this mistake again.”
<\/em>Steven Benson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steven Benson<\/strong>,\u00a0Bamboo Factory, Chamgshou<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steven Benson<\/strong>,\u00a0Farmer, Wanxian<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steven Benson<\/strong>,\u00a0Friends, Fuling<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steven Benson<\/strong>,\u00a0New Harbor, Chongqing<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steven Benson<\/strong>,\u00a0Three Gorges Dam, China<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Benson\u2019s website http:\/\/www.stevenbensonphotographer.com\/ “It was very strange to imagine that the photographs I was making in 1999 would suddenly become \u2018historic\u2019 records of a part of the world that would no longer exist as of June 10, 2003 when the reservoir filled.  The disappearance of 36,000 square miles of our planet was not the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"parent":304,"menu_order":0,"template":"resource-artist","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"topic":[6,8],"class_list":["post-1124","content","type-content","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","topic-documentary-style","topic-landscape"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t