Daniel Shea's photographic series "Plume" acts as a follow up to his 2007 series "Removing Mountains", which focused on mining coal through a process called "mountain top removal". Here, we follow the coal up river to Southeast Ohio, where there is an usually dense concentration of coal-fired power plants. Shea places our focus on two towns in particular - Racine and Cheshire - both of which sit within close proximity to four power plants, each within a 15-mile radius. Throughout the series we are presented again and again with towering coal stacks on the horizon, looking down upon the town's fragile social environment while pumping smoke into the small surrounding mountains, calling into question "our confounding relationship to power".

Daniel Shea is currently living and working as an artist and teacher in Chicago. To date, Shea has contributed to Monocle, Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone, and has put on six solo exhibitions.

"Plume" is an ongoing series funded entirely by print sales, to help support Shea you can purchase a print here for as little as $75.

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