Visualising Air Pollution: The Air of the Anthropocene

[nanila]

For the past 3-4 years, the bloke has been traveling to cities around the world as part of his air quality/particulate monitoring work. He’s often been accompanied by Robin Price, physicist and visual artist, who makes pollution paintings with a portable sensor setup. The Arts Council recently purchased the “Air of the Anthropocene” collection, and today The Guardian newspaper ran a piece about his work. Sadly, the prettier the photos are, the dirtier the air is!


Robin Price - Dehli Playground light painting

You can view the collection here.

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

Wow, that's an amazing project.

[omnipotent]

It looks lovely, but it's disturbing to think of all of that going into (and hopefully back out of) one's lungs, isn't it?

[cmcmck]

Bad air does interesting things to light!

[lurkingcat]

Those are amazing pictures but my lungs started wheezing in sympathy as I read through the photo descriptions.

[silveradept]

That's a very effective visualization of something we don't normally see, and therefore think about.