credits: Phil Toledano

Canopy Muncher

Has planet Earth evolved a species that will eventually destroy it?

Vanity Fair selected Phil Toledano’s picture of a giant American devouring a forest as one of the best of the year.

The picture came from the May 2007 VF’s Green Guide: “America’s 301 million people—5 percent of the world’s population—use a quarter of the earth’s energy and consume paper at an annual rate of 740 pounds per capita.”

Phil competed in PHTHRD: Photography Duel last summer and we auctioned one of his photographs at Dewar’s Repeal Day in December.