Stone Quarries

• Photographer
  Jan Caga
• Photo Date
  2020

Beauty in ugliness. Around 60 million tons of stone are consumed annually in the Czech republic and old quarries are beginning to be mined. Today, due to the devastation of the landscape, the opening of new quarries is an ecologically impassable solution. In the construction industry is beginning to use recycled rubble from demolished buildings and quarrying in the future will be reduced. But there will still be a need to mine precious metals and chemical elements for growing food and electronics industries.

Jan Caga, an award winning photographer, was born in a small industrial town Hodonin, Czechoslovakia in 1976. After graduating from university in Art Design he began working as a freelance magazine/journal photographer. Later he started to work mainly on long-term fine art projects, exploring the status of contemporary society.