BRUCE HALEY goldenstate
Bruce Haley – - – The goldenstate project is about the inevitability of California’s man-altered landscape, and the degree to which we accept (or perhaps no longer even notice) what we have lost. Specifically, the images depict those places where human design intersects with open space – and where this uneasy collision results in a fragmented, hybrid terrain…









Bruce Haley began his career by covering Afghanistan’s Mujahideen resistance to Soviet occupation. Since then, Haley has photographed areas of conflict in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for helping break the story of famine in Somalia, and he received the Robert Capa Gold Medal, one of the most prestigious photography awards in the world. Haley received this honor for his 1990 coverage of Burma’s bloody ethnic war. Since the birth of his son in 1995, Haley has eased away from the battlefield, exploring instead subjects as diverse as Eastern Europe’s Roma (Gypsies) and the California landscape.
ARTWORKS, Spring 2008
Erin Clark















