Changes in the Atacama Desert, Chile
Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2024 10:58 am
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The collection of images, entitled “Water, Mining and Exodus,” is the result of research conducted by Chilean photographer Marcos Zegers .
The project was carried out skype phone number data between 2015 and 2019 and, in addition to focusing on the visible aspects that these activities have generated in the area, it also explored the less obvious consequences for human beings, "associated with migrations and cultural displacements and conflicts around the availability of water resources," says the Plataforma Arquitectura website .
The research gathered information on other areas in northern Chile and part of Bolivia . The aforementioned website highlights that these exploitation practices are increasingly common in Latin America, due to the high use of resources at a global level.
The lack of regulation surrounding these activities and the neoliberal political model implemented in the country in the late 1970s are two causes that the research attributes to the current situation.
The photographer was inspired by places around the world, such as the Grand Canyon in Arizona (USA) or Tuscany (Italy), whose exhaustive exploration has provided a large number of images and has helped to popularise them. According to Zegers, this was not the case with the Atacama Desert.
“For me, the Atacama Desert did not have that condition, I felt it was a virgin territory. Over time and after several trips, what began as a random survey began to reveal a much deeper world, a series of traces related to the extractive history of a territory. A history that comes from the past and is constantly repeated and has been the fate of many territories in Latin America,” Marcos Zegers remarks.
The series of photographs was awarded in 2019 as Image of the Year Latam in the environment category.
FUNIBER sponsors numerous university programs focused on offering professionals complete and up-to-date information on the challenges facing architecture today, specifically in the mining industry. One of the courses offered is the Master's Degree in Mining Engineering .
The collection of images, entitled “Water, Mining and Exodus,” is the result of research conducted by Chilean photographer Marcos Zegers .
The project was carried out skype phone number data between 2015 and 2019 and, in addition to focusing on the visible aspects that these activities have generated in the area, it also explored the less obvious consequences for human beings, "associated with migrations and cultural displacements and conflicts around the availability of water resources," says the Plataforma Arquitectura website .
The research gathered information on other areas in northern Chile and part of Bolivia . The aforementioned website highlights that these exploitation practices are increasingly common in Latin America, due to the high use of resources at a global level.
The lack of regulation surrounding these activities and the neoliberal political model implemented in the country in the late 1970s are two causes that the research attributes to the current situation.
The photographer was inspired by places around the world, such as the Grand Canyon in Arizona (USA) or Tuscany (Italy), whose exhaustive exploration has provided a large number of images and has helped to popularise them. According to Zegers, this was not the case with the Atacama Desert.
“For me, the Atacama Desert did not have that condition, I felt it was a virgin territory. Over time and after several trips, what began as a random survey began to reveal a much deeper world, a series of traces related to the extractive history of a territory. A history that comes from the past and is constantly repeated and has been the fate of many territories in Latin America,” Marcos Zegers remarks.
The series of photographs was awarded in 2019 as Image of the Year Latam in the environment category.
FUNIBER sponsors numerous university programs focused on offering professionals complete and up-to-date information on the challenges facing architecture today, specifically in the mining industry. One of the courses offered is the Master's Degree in Mining Engineering .