2025 SPE Annual Conference: Adaptation
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The Light at the End of History
Abbey Hepner
Saturday, March 23 - 12:00PM to 1:00PM
Majestic B
This talk focuses on Hepner's decade-long examination of nuclear energy, the atomic bomb, and radioactive waste. By capturing distinct marks in time, she makes visible the ongoing, often invisible, relationship with nuclear technologies. Hepner's work looks at communities affected by nuclear issues, including indigenous communities in the Southwest and her own family that was devastatingly affected as downwinders from atomic testing in the 1950s. The work spans processes including uranium prints, film photographs, cyanotypes, laser-engraved prints, aerial photographs, video, maps, installation-based work, and computer-assisted imagery. Her monograph book was a collaboration with geographers Mark Finco and Scott White, and art historian Kirsten Pai Buick.
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