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[I]n its timeliness and historical depth, Mining Photography provides a much-needed corrective to many blind spots of production in the consumer economy . Eva Diaz, Aperture Magazine.
Eine bedeutende Ausstelung, die wunde Punkte berührt . Carolin Förster, Camera Austria
Ever since its invention, photography has depended on the global extraction and exploitation of so-called natural resources. In the early 19th century, these were salt, fossil fuels such as bitumen and carbon, as well as copper and silver, which were all used for the first images on copper plates and for salt paper prints. By the late 20th century, the photographic industry was one of the most important consumers of silver, responsible, at its peak, for more than half of the metal’s global consumption. Toda
BPA// Berlin program for artists
Hydromedia
the eponym