Alexandru Radu Popescu: Beautiful Disaster, 2021

This aerial picture is of the former village of Geamăna in Transylvania, #Romania. In 1977 the Romanian president, Nicolae Ceaușescu, ordered the evacuation of the village’s 1,000 inhabitants to clear the way for the creation of a large lake to store toxic #waste from the nearby copper mines. Popescu created this image to highlight how the beauty of the #lake – which continues to grow - is at odds with its toxicity.

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