Great Salt Lake

Great Salt Lake is the first volume of Thirst, a series of publications by Fazal Sheikh that examine the effects of climate change and extraction in the western United States. It charts the destruction of lakeside areas by industrialization, the extraction of natural minerals from the lake and subsequent pollution by chemical waste. This, combined with the loss of natural wildlife habitats, the depletion of the rivers that feed it, the toll of rising temperatures and long periods of drought, has brought the lake to crisis point. In his series of visceral images, Sheikh records the surface of the lake and with an essay by Terry Tempest Williams presents a record of Great Salt Lake at its lowest ebb.