Photograph: Sandra Schemske

John Ganis's color photographs of land use in America have been widely exhibited and published. His book, Consuming the American Landscape, with an introduction by the late Robert Sobieszek, was published in 2003 by Dewi Lewis Publishing (England) and Edition Braus (German edition). It was awarded a Stuttgart Photo Books Prize in 2003. Photographs by John Ganis are included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography, Detroit Institute of Arts, New York Public Library, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. His recent work, a series entitled "The Endangered Coast," documents the oil spills of BP on the Gulf Coast and other coastal regions endangered by rising seas and increasingly violent storms due to global warming. John Ganis is a professor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, where he has taught photography since 1980. His Website is www.johnganisphotography.com.