Super Pit, Sibai, Bingham, Chuquicamata, 2018
Digitaldruck auf Papier
35cm x 50cm
All work and photographs © Maike Gerten
Maike Gerten
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About the work
The photos of the 4-part series show the negative forms of four opencast mines whose hollow forms were materialized as 3D prints. These are the mines Sibai (Russia), Bingham (USA), Chuquicamata (Chile) and Super Pit (Australia), where copper and gold are mined, among other things.
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