Weekend Portfolio: Mimi Plumb

Images and Text by Mimi Plumb

The 1980s encapsulated for me the anxieties of a world spinning out of balance. Global warming, civil wars in the Middle East and Central America, and the election of a former movie actor to the presidency of the United States, all contributed to the sense of no future. Landfall, my photographs from the 1980s, is a series fueled by the anxieties of the nuclear age, my Grimm’s fairy tale, based on a true story from my childhood…“I remember having insomnia for a time when I was 9 years old. My mother told me there might be nuclear war. I spent many nights getting out of bed to look at the hallway clock. Late into the night, I also worried about not sleeping.” 

More of Mimi Plumb’s work can be found on her website.