We Eat the Earth

This project unites archival, collage and fieldwork photographs to describe how our collective appetite reshapes the earth and how the production of nutrients required for agriculture materially changes our social, political and physical environments.

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How does our collective appetite reshape the earth? This project brings together archival photographs, collage and fieldwork documentation to explore how the production of the nutrients required for agriculture materially changes our social, political and physical environments.

Taking fertilizer as its primary lens of inquiry, the work draws attention to under-acknowledged relationships between industrial agriculture, climate crisis, chemical warfare, settler colonialism and extractavism.

Mapping the material flows of fertilizer extraction, production and waste byproducts between interconnected sites such as phosphate mines in Western Sahara and an artificial island in Sweden; nitrogen factories in Germany and a far-right farmer’s political party in the Netherlands; and the U.S. phosphorous industry to chemical weapons illegally deployed in Palestine, the project aims to reveal the destabilising global impact of fertiliser production as well as the devastating environmental and socio-political consequences of its extraction, production and management.