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For his "Surveillance" series, David Maisel photographed military storage facilities in the American West, including the Hawthorne Army Ammunition Depot near Reno, Nevada. Touted as the largest such facility in the country, the depot comprises over 2,000 munitions "igloos" and various sites for chemical weapons disposal and bomb detonation. Maisel's aerial surveys of the facility flatten the terrain into attractive, geometric designs. But here the lofty aerial perspectives also underscore the regimented efficiency we expect from military planners, as countless storage bunkers stretch across the barren desert landscape like so many rows of tract housing. By suggesting an eerily abandoned suburbia in these pictures, Maisel hints at the possible consequences of these dormant weapons.

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