2020 Hindsight
2020 Hindsight began with grandchildren and a sense of urgency. These postcards are photographs of 2020 climate crisis events that occurred in each of the 50 United States. The Climate Report (2019) helped inform my search for images. When first conceived at the start of 2020, the climate events and photographic content was unknown.
The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information’s (NCEI’s) final 2020 data update “..officially confirm[ed] what communities across the nation experienced first-hand: 2020 was a historic year of extremes. There were 22 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, shattering the previous annual record....”
For the most part, images without people were chosen. Disparities of climate change impact between domestic and global communities are huge, and yet, we are all in this together.
2021-2022, 4 x 6 inches
50 state postcards & chapbook in envelope enclosure, $150, Edition 15
letterpress, inkjet, digitally printed photographs, text collage, pen & ink
Alabama: Sept 2020 Hurricane Sally Hal Yeager, Governor’s Office
Alaska: July 2020 Ice Melt Ellsworth Glacier NOAA/Chris Larsen
Arizona: April 2020 Drought, Lake Mead TFoxFoto/Shutterstock
Arkansas: Jan 2020 Severe storms Arkansas Democrat- Gazette
California: Dec 2020 Fires Orange County
Colorado: Aug 2020 Fire, Glenwood Canyon; Adventure_Photo.via.iStock
Connecticut:Aug2020 Tornado Tropical Storm Isaias Westport Fire Dept
Delaware: Aug 2020 Flood Tropical Storm Isaias Newark Police Dept
Florida: Oct 2020 Flood Hurricane Delta
Georgia: Aug 2020 Tornadoes NWS
Hawai’i: Sept 2020 Beach Erosion Hawai’i Sea Grant
Idaho: Jul 2020 Fire TrishJose.via.shutterstock
Illinois: May 2020 Flood, record rain
Indiana: Aug 2020 Tornado, Derecho NWS
Iowa: Aug 2020 Derecho Lisa Schmitz via NWS
Kansas: Oct 2020 Supercell storm mdesigner125 via iStock
Kentucky: Feb 2020 Flood Stacy Steward via NWS
Louisiana: Aug 2020 Hurricane Laura Josiah Pugh via LA National Guard
Maine: May 2020 Drought, Fire Aroostook County, Maine Forest Rangers
Maryland: Sept 2020 Flood David Dildine via Prince George County Volunteer Fire Dept
Massachusetts:Jul 2020 Ocean warming Houndfish/T Boylan
Michigan: May 2020 Record rain MI State Police via Governor’s Office
Minnesota: Jul 2020 Tornado NWS
Mississippi: Apr 2020 Tornado, severe storm MEMA
Missouri: 2020 Flooding
Montana: Aug 2020 Fires Steve Lubinski via BLM
Nebraska: Aug 2020 Supercell storm mdesigner125 via iStock
Nevada: 2020 Drought NWS
New Hampshire: Sept 2020 Drought
New Jersey: Aug 2020 Tropical Storm Isaias
New Mexico: May 2020 Immigration Grandriver via iStock
New York: Apr 2020 Covid pandemic Jennifer M. Mason via Shutterstock
North Carolina: Apr 2020, Tornado Severe thunderstorm NWS
North Dakota: 2020 Drought Miranda Meehan via NDSU
Ohio: Mar 2020 Flooding Joshua Gunter via cleveland.com
Oklahoma: Oct 2020 Flooding Susan Vineyard via iStock
Oregon: Sept 2020 Fire, Alameda aboursabroad via Shutterstock
Pennsylvania: Aug 2020 Flood Tropical Storm Isaias
Rhode Island: Aug 2020 Tropical Storm Isaias photo via Reportit
South Carolina: Apr 2020 Tornado NWS
South Dakota: Sept 2020 Supercell storm Cammie Czuchnicki via iStock
Tennessee: Mar 2020 Tornado Cyndi Hoelzle via iStock
Texas: Jul 2020 Hurricane Hanna NWS
Utah: Oct 2020 Wildfire East Troublesome inciweb.nwcg.gov
Vermont: Aug 2020 DroughtWinooski River Duxbury VTDigger.org.
Virginia: Feb 2020 Flooding VDEM
Washington: Feb 2020 Fire smoke Jingxuan Ji via iStock
West Virginia: 2020 Drought Cheat Lake Steve Heap via Shutterstock
Wisconsin: Jun 2020 Flooding St. Croix County Sheriff ’s Office
Wyoming: Nov 2020 Fire Mullen Fire Chip Redmond/USFS