Extinction Book
Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant and animal extinctions, according to a growing number of scientists, studies, publications, and reports. In the last century, the awareness that human activities are harmful to the environment, to life in general, including that of humans has increased. Wars, climate change, diseases, pollution, technological escalation, deforestation are just some of the threats that challenge the survival of the species. 30 photographers selected by Urbanautica Institute. More on: http://www.urbanautica.com
Human destruction of the living world is causing a “frightening” number of plant and animal extinctions, according to a growing number of scientists, studies, publications, and reports. In the last century, the awareness that human activities are harmful to the environment, to life in general, including that of humans has increased. Wars, climate change, diseases, pollution, technological escalation, deforestation are just some of the threats that challenge the survival of the species.
30 photographers selected by Urbanautica Institute.
More on: http://www.urbanautica.com
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Before hydroelectricity development and tourism activities, Maurienne territories
have been exploited for a long time. Roads of the Mont-Cenis have crossed
the Alps since Hannibal times. Over the years, railroad pioneers experienced
different trails in the region. Today a new passage is being dug, and it testifies
both the completion of an old transport ambition, as much as, the emergence of
global needs in moving goods. The drilling of the Lyon-Turin tunnel crystallizes
the relationship with time disparities. A coveted time, whose incompressibility
tries to be abolished by an obstinate search for speed. This is a Trans-European
essential link whose legitimacy is also reprobated. As an ephemeral compromise
between anthropic interests and natural constraints, landscapes are also the
support of economic convulsions and contain evidence of past and future
threats. To what extent can we consider that technology makes the world
suitable to live in? Is there any disconnection between economic time and
natural human timeframe? What is the threshold making a resilient environment
permanently modified and hostile for humans? Without offering direct answers,
these issues are covered throughout this series. The image approaches vary
from poetic evocation to documentary investigation.
La Pennétrie
Charles BouchaïB
charlesbouchaib.com
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