Kai Loffelbein: Ctrl-X.: A topography of e-waste

ISBN-13: 9783869309705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 180 str.

Kai Loffelbein

Opis

In this book Kai Loffelbein (born 1981) follows the electronic-waste trails from Europe and the US to Agbogbloshie in Ghana, the e-waste city of Guiyu in China and the workshops of New Delhi. He meticulously documents the appalling conditions under which workers, sometimes even children, attempt to recover valuable raw materials contained in e-waste.

O autorze

Kai Löffelbein was born in Germany in 1981 and studied documentary photography in Hanover. He has since worked in South America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, devoting himselfto long-term projects that capture the impacts on common people and the environment left by socio-political and economic phenomena. Löffelbein has exhibited internationally and his awards include the Henri Nannen Prize, the UNICEF Photo of the Year Award, The New York Photo Award, the DAYS JAPAN International Photojournalism Award, the FotoVisura Photography Grant and the Px3 Prix de la Photographie. He is one of theCritical Mass Top 50 Selected Artists and recently received a grant from the Magnum Foundation.