Mapping the Anthropocene: Beautiful Destruction and Dark Ecology

Panneels, Inge

Abstract

This chapter explores how the photographic works of Louis Helbig’s Beautiful Destruction (2014) and Nikel Materiality (2015) by Tatjana Gorbachewskaja and Katya Larina map the disturbed ecologies in the far North of Canada and Northern Europe as evidence of the Anthropocene. The two case studies are located in the boreal region of Canada and Northern Europe which are placed in the broader geo-political context of the North

• Online Publication Date: May 29, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-06
• Deposit Date: May 16, 2023
• Pages: 204-229
• Book Title: Disturbed Ecologies: photography, geopolitics and the Northern Landscape in the Era of environmental Crisis
• Chapter Number: 8
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-6026-5
• Publisher URL: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/disturbed-ecologies/9783837660265