Sierra is the national magazine of the Sierra Club, one of the oldest and largest nonprofit grassroots environmental organizations in the United States. We are an independent journalistic enterprise publishing award-winning and cutting-edge reporting, both in print and online, dedicated to stories about exploring, protecting, and living in harmony with the natural world. Covering everything from climate change and fossil fuels to clean energy and environmental justice, Sierra brings together leading writers and visual storytellers to report on the issues that matter most to our world.
Sierra is the modern version of the original Sierra Club publication Bulletin, created by famed naturalist John Muir in 1893, one year after founding the Sierra Club. Today, we are proudly the home of vanguard eco-literary journalism, investigative feature stories, book reviews, cultural critique, poetry, commissioned photography and illustration, and profiles that inform, enlighten, and inspire change.
Journalist Marilyn Snell approached me needing photos for an assignment she was working on about environmental pollution and its affect on the community of Wilmington, California. The assignment was to photograph areas of Wilmington, specifically the oil refineries surrounding the area, the Port of Los Angeles and the surrounding pollutants including trucks, and general shots of the area such as dwellings, storefronts, and landscapes.
