Eye-catching abstract photos reveal mining’s scars on our planet
Published 22 Apr 2021, 10:29 BST
Minerals color a wastewater pond after mining.
Hegen says some people mistake his images for paintings: “They don’t know these places really exist.”
Workers set up an excavator at a lignite mine in eastern Germany.
Overburden, the material that’s removed to get to the lignite, in a mine in eastern Germany.
Wastewater fills a lignite mine in eastern Germany.
An excavator digs in a coal bed. Accessing each ton of coal requires moving several tons of soil, gravel, and clay.