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Spreads from 'Tom Hegen: Salt Works' — new explorations in bird’s eye photography from the author of 'Aerial Observations on Airports' — published by @hatjecantzverlag⁠ ⁠ The extraction of sea salt is one of the oldest forms of human landscaping. Sea-salt production sites can be found all over the world, usually around shallow shorelines. But we rarely ask where salt comes from and how it is produced. German photographer Tom Hegen (born 1991) has explored these magical landscapes from an aerial perspective, creating spectacular images in the process. This gorgeously illustrated book reveals how the landscape has been shaped by salt mining and how the mining process has created structures that take on an almost painterly, abstract quality.⁠ ⁠ Edited by Nadine Barth. Text by Annalena Erhardt, Mark Kurlansky, Sabine Schwarzfischer.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @tomhegen.de #tomhegen #saltworks #saltmines #tomhegensaltworks @barthouseprojects https://www.instagram.com/p/CpGI4xkpTWb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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"Both strikingly beautiful and alarming." Read Megan Jones on Augsburg-based Tom Hegen's aerial photographs of mineral extraction in a new review in @aestheticamag ⁠ ⁠ "By 2019, according to figures from the Natural History Museum, over 70% of the Earth had been directly altered. From Hegen’s aerial vantage point, viewers are invited to consider a sense of global responsibility. Figures are reduced to insignificant flecks, vehicles blotted against the road. These photographs reveal collisions between natural and man-made, where vast geographies have been redefined by networks of artificially constructed shallow ponds."⁠ ⁠ 'Tom Hegen: Salt Works' is published by @hatjecantz ⁠ Edited by Nadine Barth. Text by Annalena Erhardt, Mark Kurlansky, Sabine Schwarzfischer.⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @barthouseprojects @tomhegen.de #tomhegen #saltworks #saltmines #tomhegensaltworks⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CovCy_cp6fC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=