Healing Landscape: A Damaged World in Transition

• Prize
  Gold in Nature/Earth, 1st Place winner in Nature
• Photographer
  joSon, United States
• Studio
  joSon photo llc.

The San Francisco Bay Area Salt Ponds, once home to a stunning
array of wildlife and plants, viewed from air, are now a world of
blazing colors and swirling patterns.  Yet their complex
industrial history, including the use of their salt to manufacture
napalm in the 1960s—the searing effects of which I witnessed
firsthand during my upbringing as a young Buddhist monk in
Vietnam—has increasingly led me to see them in a new light.
This is a story of a thriving land in transition: a healing
landscape that unites many worlds as one.

Awards PX3
CA
PDN
AP