Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production

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Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image ProductionPhotography has always depended on the extraction and exploitation of so called natural raw materials. Having started out using copper, coal, silver, and paperthe raw materials of analogue image production in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesphotography now relies, in the age of the smartphone, on rare earths and metals like coltan, cobalt, and europium. The exhibition focuses on the history of key raw materials utilised in photography and

housed in a slipcase

Their in-depth approach illustrates how this body of work lets our perpetual sense of reality slip as it invades our senses

because housing and the climate crisis are the very issues that challenge our global community today

Flames comes courtesy of Shelter Press (St Martin)

When the exhibition enters the digital realm

ex-CIA operative Larry J

this light is gentle and clear and reflects the methodology and intention of the maker

And yet they are

the abandoned Mary Kathleen uranium mine near Mount Isa in Queensland

and contested monuments

a place of urban styling

so war is now