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20 April 2022

Annotation on 3 March 2023: The exhibition 'Mining Photography' will be on view from 9 March until 29 May 2023 at the Kunst Haus Wien.

MK&G Hamburg exhibition 'Mining Photography' explores with works by artists and statements by nature scientists the impact of photography on the environment of the last 200 years


The basics of the upcoming exhibition 'Mining Photography. The Ecological Footprint of Image Production' at the MK&G Hamburg from 15 July until 31 October are the results of nature sciences about the impact of photography on the environment over 200 years. The exhibition is structured after the used main raw materials in five chapters reaching from copper for 19th century daguerreotype to cobalt and europium (used for screens) for nowadays mobile devices.

The multidisciplinary approach includes statements of restorers, nature scientists like geologists or climate researchers as well as works by artists concerning the history of photography in relation to the environment. The narrative also includes historical economic circumstances such as international trade of ores, colonial structures or the mining industry and workers behind the scenes of new industries like the 'Pit Brow Women' as well as outlooks into strategies in the future such as digital technologies allowing consumers to calculate the impact of their own behavior. It's announced that an app developed in collaboration with the class of Christoph Knoth and Konrad Renner at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts allows visitors to view the lifespan and recycling aspects of their phones and track their own energy consumption.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog (174-pages, German and English) by Spector Verlag, Leipzig.

Images, from left:
John Cooper. Miner (woman in men's wear), 1860ies, Carte de visite. Trinity College Library, Cambridge.
Lisa Barnard (* 1967). Broken mobile phone screen, Shenzhen, China, 2018. © Lisa Barnard.



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