For more than twenty years, this photographer has been working on a series creating staged tableaux in the manner of nineteenth-century painters, investigating the interaction between inhabitants and their surrounding environments in countries as diverse as Spain, Uganda, Indonesia, and Japan. His large-scale images examine communal spaces, the outskirts of metropolises, waste disposal sites, and land marked by agriculture and mining, revealing that these locations are products of human visions and ideals, yet also places of environmental exploitation.