photo: © Tom Hegen - N°TSSIII_15 from THE SALT SERIES III, United States, 2021
Although sea salt extraction is one of the oldest forms of landscaping, we rarely wonder where the salt comes from and how it is produced. Sites for sea salt production can be found all over the world, usually along shallow coasts.
The ionic lattices of salt are one of the central elements of organic life. Tom Hegen has this one magical landscapes explored from the air and obtained spectacular images.
This book with beautiful photographs shows how the landscape has been shaped by salt extraction and how the mining process has created structures that take on an almost painterly, abstract quality in Hegen's photographs.
The ionic lattices of salt are one of the central elements of organic life
Salt Works is a study of color and geometry, an ode to the beauty of the everyday.
Tom Hegen (*1991, Augsburg) is one of the most talked-about aerial photographers of our time. In his works, the photographer from Augsburg documents the traces that humans leave behind on the earth's surface.
He has received several awards, most recently the Red Dot Design Award (2021) and the German Design Award (2019).
Photo homepage: © Tom Hegen - N°TSSI_06 from THE SALT SERIES I, France, 2018
Tom Hegen - Salt Works
Pages: 288
Price: €80.99
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
