Contested Ground

Contested Ground is a photo series of landscapes and portraits by Art Academy of Cincinnati alumni photographers Taylor Dorrell and Cody Perkins, which takes on the spatial impact of the Amazon facilities in Greater Cincinnati. Economic investments are often relegated to abstract numbers and historical parallels, both relying on an obscure notion of time. As workers at these facilities are engaged in a struggle to unionize, abstract issues are brought into the material world. These massive facilities are built in spaces that people interact with everyday, transforming highways, roads, and individual lives.

Through color photography, Contested Ground mixes the economic, spatial, and class dynamics of the Amazon boom, while employees in the Northern Kentucky facility seek union recognition and a fair contract.

Artists: Taylor Dorrell and Cody Perkins