as reality can be it can also be sublime habitats and living space are what interest photographer tom hagen. homo sapiens has thrived for nearly 300000 years 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 to nial 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. when here in the us especially here in germany when you fly from munich and see the countryside slipping away beneath you. you n