J. Henry Fair's environmental work entitled Industrial Scars series is an environmental photography project that explores the detritus of our consumer society, through large-scale aerial photo shoots and accompanying documentary research.

The images taken from the air are great as colour abstractions, but they also highlight the effects of industrial processes on the environment.

He ">says:

I see our culture as being addicted to petroleum and the unsustainable consumption of other natural resources, which seems to portend a future of scarcity. My vision is of a different possibility, arrived at through careful husbandry of resources and adjustment of our desires and consumption patterns toward a future of health and plenty. To gear our civilization toward sustainability does not necessitate sacrifice today, as many naysayers would argue, but simply adjustment.

Without the text and captions the images would be interpreted by the art institution as continuing the painterly strategies of Abstract Expressionists like Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still and reworks the ground turned over by photographers like Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.