Industrial abstracts (Image: Kacper Kowalski)
AERIAL photography was forbidden in communist-era Poland. Since the ban was lifted 17 years ago, Kacper Kowalski has been paragliding over the industrial heart of his homeland, taking photographs of its denuded yet eerily beautiful landscapes.
This picture, from the series Toxic Beauty, shows ash from a coal-fired power station in Turek. The opencast mine that feeds the station has been eating up 100 hectares of land a year since mining began in 1964. But two years from now, the landscape will start to change again as it is converted into a wind farm.
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