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Deep furrows in the first light of dawn. Or is it the evening twilight that’s revealing these lunar landscapes that open-pit mining has left behind? On the horizon, the towers of two power plants throw clouds of exhaust fumes into the air while the still active, steel mining giants flash persistently. In the somnambulistic images of the dune-like earth formations, Eginhartz Kanter captures the ambivalent beauty and melancholy of the scenery. The visible effects of the industrial land grab in the coal age testify to a dystopian, man-made emptiness.