In images that could be mistaken for paintings, a photographer records how mine waste has ruined a valley near his Romanian hometown.
Since first visiting the copper mine’s polluted lake, Gheorghe Popa has returned many times. The scene, he says, “keeps drawing me to it like a forbidden fruit.”
ByHicks Wogan
Photographs ByGheorghe Popa
Published September 7, 2021
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