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Photos, Film, Art & Graphics

Visual media can immediately connect viewers with the communities and landscapes where mining occurs.  Please contact us if you have a visual Connection to recommend.


  • Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley.  Ansel Adams.

    Ansel Adams.  Photos.  Ansel Adams is virtually synonymous with the western landscape.
     
  • Black Maps: the Mining Project.  Aerial photo essay of landscapes impacted by mining, by David Maisel.
     
  • Breaking Ground.  Photographic works by Edward Burtynksy.
     
  • Choropampa, the price of gold.  Documentary by Guarango Cine y Video.  "'The people united will never be defeated' ...rings true again with unquestionable eloquence in this simple advocacy video." -- Chicago Sun Times.
     
  • Don't Flush.  Magnet.  David Loew.
     
  • Earthworks.  Modern and ancient earth art by Robert Smithson.
     
  • Libby, Montana.  Documentary by High Plains Films.  "Employing impressive imagery and flashbacks, this film not only tells of a failed American environmental policy, but also of courage, hope and dedication" -- Okomedia Institute.
     
  • Poison in the Rockies: Threats to Water Quality in the Colorado Rockies.  Documentary by Bullfrog Films.  "A well-documented look at an ecological time-bomb." -- Booklist
     
  • Tambogrande, Peru, protest poster
    "Can you imagine life without lemons?  Say no to mineral exploitation in Tambogrande."
     
  • Touch Wood
    Wood Wedding Bands, Wood Engagement Rings. "Wearing a hand crafted wood ring speaks volumes about your commitment to the environment and to the concept of simple living."
     
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.  1948 film starring Humphrey Bogart, directed by John Huston.  The corrosive power of gold.
     
  • Valentine's Day Card.  No Dirty Gold Campaign/Freerange Graphics.
     
  • WasteLand: Meditations on a Ravaged Landscape.  Photo essay by David T. Hanson.

 

Community Voices

Western Shoshone Nation, USA

The 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley between the US government and the Western Shoshone Nation recognized the Western Shoshone people as the landowner of Shoshone lands, entitled to royalties for the extractive activities. But no royalties have ever been paid.