When we mine the land for precious minerals, what do we gain, and what do we lose?
These giant balls of metal each represent an exact amount of material: the volumes produced by various mines in South Africa.
Artist and photographer Dillon Marsh wanted to visualise the value that humans have taken from the Earth, and its impact.
He added digital balls of material to these photos of scarred landscapes to illustrate what was gained, and what was lost.
The series is called: ‘For what it’s worth’.
In the very first diamond photo, the ball is on a small stand on the path in the front of the photo, it is VERY small. The next diamond photo is a zoom-in of the same ball and stand. The other diamond photos are roughly the same. Diamond has a very high cost per weight, and essentially all of that cost is falsely inflated and the diamonds are mined at the expense of human beings. Dont buy diamonds.
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