D. Eric Bookhardt did a wonderful review in the Gambit!
Michel Varisco’s large photographs (shown) of the Louisiana wetlands and Gulf of Mexico document both their beauty and degradation in images that are stunning on several levels. First, there is something magical about the place functioning as the womb of the American continent, where fish and fowl eternally return to mate and procreate. A vast estuary of mythic proportions, it is a place long considered sacred by Native Americans. Scarring the natural beauty is an infestation of oil company canals like giant syringes injecting lethal salt water into the extraordinarily fertile terrain that feeds and protects us, causing it to rapidly dissolve into the Gulf. The result is Eden reduced to a crime scene, and Varisco effectively captures its beauty and horror for all to see. — D. Eric Bookhardt