{"id":137470,"date":"2022-03-29T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/aerial-photos-document-the-expansive-greenhouses-covering-spains-almeria-peninsula"},"modified":"2022-03-29T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:02:19","slug":"aerial-photos-document-the-expansive-greenhouses-covering-spains-almeria-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/aerial-photos-document-the-expansive-greenhouses-covering-spains-almeria-peninsula","title":{"rendered":"Aerial Photos Document the Expansive Greenhouses Covering Spain\u2019s Almer\u00eda Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A follow-up to his series focused on the glow of LED-lit greenhouses<\/a>, Tom Hegen<\/a>\u2019s new collection peers down on the landscape of Spain\u2019s Almer\u00eda peninsula. The German photographer is broadly interested in our impact on the earth and gears his practice toward the aerial, offering perspectives that illuminate the immense scale of human activity.<\/p>\n

In The Greenhouse Series II<\/em><\/a>, Hegen captures the abstract topographies of the world\u2019s largest agricultural production center of its kind, which stretches across 360-square kilometers of rugged, mountainous terrain in the southern part of the country. The sun-trapping structures house plants like tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and watermelons that provide fresh produce to much of Europe year-round.<\/p>\n

While 30 times more productive than typical farmland in the region, the facilities also function at a cost to the local ecosystems. \u201cGroundwater is being polluted with fertilisers and pesticides. Some 30,000 tons of plastic waste are created each year,\u201d Hegen tells Colossal, noting that the greenhouses are made almost entirely of plastic foil, which is shredded and discarded nearby once it\u2019s no longer useful. \u201cFrom there, wind and erosion transport it to the (Mediterranean Sea).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A follow-up to his series focused on the glow of LED-lit greenhouses, Tom Hegen\u2019s new collection peers down on the landscape of Spain\u2019s Almer\u00eda peninsula. The German photographer is broadly interested in our impact on the earth and gears his practice toward the aerial, offering perspectives that illuminate the immense scale of human activity. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}