ABSTRACT
“An Engine, not a Camera: Curating Environmental Histories of Photography and Extraction,” considers the significance of looking at the history of photography as one of industrial production, deeply intertwined with the human change of the environment, as well as the challenges that such a narrative presents. Taking Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production—an exhibition co-curated by Boaz Levin and Esther Ruelfs (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 2022)—as his point of departure, Levin explores the role played by materialist methods in revising the way photography has been widely (mis)understood.
