how far and. as terrible as reality can be it can also be sublime habitats and living space are what interest photographer tom hagen. homosapiens has thrived for nearly 300000 here is often in a hostile environment mankind has done all manner of cultivating domesticating digging drilling and building right now it's thawing ice sheets on our planet and barely even noticing because mankind is also very good at denial photographer tom hagen flew over the arctic last summer taking these pictures the series is called 2 degrees celsius named after climate change is magic number the limit that global warming must not exceed the traces we leave all over the planet are the theme of hagan's work. this is one of

the oldest human interventions in nature salt mining a colorful symbiosis between industry and the bacteria which live in the salt works hagen used to focus on shooting beautiful landscapes but he soon realized that didn't satisfy him if. what he saw from the plane had a profound effect on him. there when he endorsed especially here in germany when you fly from munich and see the countryside slipping away beneath you. you notice that over 90 percent of our german countryside has been altered by humans and i didn't realize that at 1st. we've left just 0.6 percent of the planet as wilderness claiming everything else and describing it says cultivated. pagan spent months journeying through these landscapes researching how our needs shape our environment. the

result is his book habitat. after titles initially sound very positive. what nourishes us. what builds us up. what drives us. what connects us. from a bird's eye view our attempts to make ourselves at home on earth look oddly aesthetic. the accuracy with which we order and aligned the chaos of nature the resourcefulness we have in constantly developing new technologies to secure our existence. in. each picture has a strange beauty but leaves behind a bitter taste. to since they're very appealing also in terms of color they're very easy on the eye

it's as if the beholder is being fed with sugar sweet at 1st but soon you realize that what you see is actually poison exceeds. the golden field of rapeseed of. one of the 4 monocultures which are grown on 78 percent of our agricultural space. a romantic country road part of one of the densest traffic networks in the world laid from end to end it would reach the moon and back. a german forest. a tidy raw materials warehouse 91 percent is used for timber production. and opencast mine. brutal beauty ignite mining for energy production is going to be phased out in 2 decades time the view will go on exploiting the earth until the very last reserves are used up with and another few 100000000 tons of c o 2 have been dumped into the atmosphere he still isn't working. on the only then will we

see ok there are consequences such as forest fires sea levels rising refugee crises triggered by. veyron mental catastrophes then we humans will start to think. we think it's enough to remain pits successfully dug for the exploitation of construction materials and turn them into lakes for us and a few other species to splash around in. the world population is growing annually by around the same number of people who live in germany the growth is chiefly in countries still far removed from our standard of living but pursuing it with all their might. and. almost doesn't like to exercise restraint as the last 300000 years have shown tom hagan's artistic mission is to document the results.

thanks. if i want to work 100 hours a week and never see my family and die in early age that's my private if. i want to use media this was. excessive well american photographer lauren greenfield is fascinated by the super rich binge consumerism does it make us happy generation wealth is the name of her exhibition at hamburg's. i've been a photographer for 25 years with my lens focused on well. i notice that no matter how much people. they still want more. it's never enough capital is cash sex youth lifestyle and obsessive addiction. lauren greenfield takes us on a trip to the excesses of turbo capitalism. welcome to an empire of global madness

the world of super egos performers brand models the rich and the celebrity want to be i really try to show people's humanity i try not to be judged until i try to create a safe space where they can tell their stories and that i try to represent their stories true to what i have seen. sometimes disturbing sometimes grotesque and almost obscene the 150 photos in the exhibition tread a thin line between the dream and the nightmare of the endless desire for money power and luxury. 52 year old lauren greenfield has known this generation well for a long time she grew up in los angeles encountering it for the 1st time in high school. i think the thing that i'm usual about my perspective ever kind of in a way counterintuitive is that it is very critical of the culture. but not very critical

of the people that i see people reacting to their surroundings to their influences to different stimuli and i want to look at what that says culture i love the. green field has also made a documentary about her work it's been screened in international best doubles and can now also be seen at the exhibition house classics working in almost every color bag star 20 celsius 33 pounds of gold diamonds jimena me but. i know the names of the car dash and that i know the names of my neighbors. after so many years working with the super rich greenfield knows for a fact that money can't buy you happiness. the inner void that luxury is meant to fill is a bottomless pit. which comes across loud and clear in the pictures. capitalism

. thrives on people feeling. what we see in many of these stories in the film is that people are using things to fill us to fill of void. unfortunately money. brands fill in the blank. had always wanted to be rich and famous but she burst into tears when she saw her photo. greenfield subjects have paid a high price to be who they are. to sell out a values could not be portrayed more poignantly. but it's sad that the desolation of global capitalism can also be so entertaining. no reason because of subjects couldn't be more different he finds them in places

like a busy train station in berlin. his photos go against the grain. the protectionists of his images are antiheroes poor derelict down and out. his photos long went unpublished. today the native ukrainian is.