There's a natural part to it. And a human part. The natural part is the incredible colors and relief of the area. The human element is the evidence of quarries dug into the cliff faces as early as the end of the 18th century.
Soon to be historic images... Sixty years after its closure in 1965, the asbestos factory in Canari, Corsica, will be destroyed and its quarries «made safe» from this year onwards. After a vein was discovered in 1898, a Swiss working for the ETERNIT company spotted a real deposit in the 1920s. By 1940, millions of tons of rock had been extracted from the site by ETERNIT subsidiary SMA (Société minière de l'amiante), disfiguring the region. Once the asbestos had been isolated, the crushed rock filled the bays and coves of western Cap Corse, transforming them into black beaches, such as the famous Nonza beach.
Theodor Wildt shares textual and pictorial fragments of his work with Regard Libre readers. Episode 10
One of the members of our editorial team recently received a definitive rejection from an art school. His work was deemed insufficiently imbued with a certain type of «critical» discourse. His testimony serves as a warning.
Mind you, we're just talking about nitrogen and oxygen, water vapour, sun and clouds, not Heaven with a capital C that hypothetical gods would use as a megaphone. No, simply the sky in all its vastness, movement and light. Three snapshots taken on planet Earth, in Italy and Switzerland, rendered here without the slightest AI aimed at creating a reality other than our own.
Theodor Wildt shares textual and pictorial fragments of his work with Regard Libre readers. Episode 9
Theodor Wildt shares textual and pictorial fragments of his work with Regard Libre readers. Episode 9
This subject is an extract from Nicolas Brodard's photographic project «De la représentation des Alpes en Suisse». This forthcoming book explores Switzerland's visual identity based on the Alpine landscape.
All that remains of the Saint-Julien-des-Meulières quarry is a maze of pebbles strewn with massive, abandoned millstones. Photoreport
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