Seeing the Petrochemical Landscapes of the Bakken

D. L. Fischer is associate professor of landscape architecture and chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at North Dakota State University. He is an ASLA award-winning landscape architect and currently serves as an architecture and design committee advisor for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, scheduled to open in Medora, ND in 2025.

Meghan Kirkwood is an assistant professor of visual arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where she serves as area head of photography. She earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Photography before completing her MFA in Studio Art at Tulane University and her PhD at the University of Florida. Kirkwood’s photography has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, Thailand, Mexico, and South Africa. Her photographic research looks at the ways in which landscape imagery can inform and advance public conversations around land use, infrastructure, and planning.