The photographs in the book were made in the oil fields of the Niger Delta, Nigeria; the coal
belt of Jharkhand, India; and the open cast mines of Brandenburg and North Rhine Westphalia in Germany and Silesia in Poland. They shift between details and overviews,
landscapes and portraits, the familiar and the foreign, disorientating the viewer as to what
and where they are looking at. The images are cinematic--dark and brooding skies,
dramatic...