LandRush – iPad App
LandRush – iPad App The bilingual LandRush-App (for iPad) features the project’s chapters from Iowa, Ethiopia, and Brazil. It combines short documentary films with texts, video moments, interviews, and still images. Each chapter is a complete, self-contained story that we update once situations change. So by its very design, LandRush stays in a constant Beta. […]
Cicero – Dry West
Cicero – Dry West Empty reservoirs, no snow, withered fields, hundreds of families without running water, the driest year, the warmest February, a race to groundwater, even the ground itself is collapsing. The historic drought in the American West threatens the Californian Dream. A dream built on water. We published our story on the ongoing […]
LFI – California Deamin’
LFI – California Dreamin’ Empty reservoirs, no snow, withered fields, hundreds of families without running water, the driest year, the warmest February, a race to groundwater, even the ground itself is collapsing. The historic drought in the American West threatens the Californian Dream. A dream built on water. We have collaborated with Leica Fotografie International […]
LFI – The Road
LFI – The Road In western Brazil, the extension of the Soy Highway drives the agricultural boom of Mato Grosso’s huge industrial farms ever deeper into the Amazon basin. The road opens the wilderness for unfathomable wealth, work, education, and laws. The price for this dream is monoculture, pesticides, and the disappearance of nature. The […]
GEO – White Gold
GEO – White Gold The White Gold chapter on the social and environmental consequences of global cotton production, that we reported in five regions over 6 years, was published by Geo Magazin and Geo International in eleven countries worldwide. Ten short multimedia films where additionally published on the Geo iPad App.
Spiegel – Welcome to Utopia
Spiegel – Welcome to Utopia We have been collaborating with Der Spiegel on a series of long form multimedia publications on the Salton Sea. The largest lake in California is drying up, creating a regional dustbowl and one of the mayor environmental and public health disasters in the USA. To document the situation over the […]
Spiegel – See aus Staub
Der Spiegel – See aus Staub We have been collaborating with Der Spiegel on a series of long form multimedia publications on the Salton Sea. The largest lake in California is drying up, creating a regional dustbowl and one of the mayor environmental and public health disasters in the USA. The story See aus Staub […]
Science Notes – Dustbowl Riviera
Science Notes – Dustbowl Riviera, 2018 We have been collaborating with Science Notes magazine to tell the story of the Salton Sea, from its accidental creation, over its heydays with wild parties and boat-races, the water transfers that turn it into a toxic dustbowl to its dystopian future. The story was published in Science Notes […]
Centre national de l’audiovisuel – LandRush
Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA) Our most extensive exhibition was shown in Luxemburg from March 20 to August 29, 2021, at the Pomhouse of the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA). For the first time, it brought together all three chapters of our ongoing investigation into global agriculture: WHITE GOLD (2007 – 2012) examined global cotton […]
Stormy Weather – Climate Change & Social Justice
Stormy Weather – Climate Change & Social Justice In Stormy Weather, international artists reflect on the climate crisis concerning the unequal power distribution in the world. Pollution and global warming, with all consequences for land, water, air, and all living organisms, are related to international political systems and socio-economic processes, now and in the past. In […]