Modern food production relies heavily on one key mineral: phosphate. It’s an essential ingredient in artificial fertilizer, yet few people realize that most of the world’s phosphate comes from just a handful of mines—one of the largest being in Morocco.
In the Moroccan mining regions, local communities witness their landscapes being excavated and transformed. The connection between this environmental impact and the abundance in our supermarkets is often unclear to them—just as we rarely consider where the foundations of our food systems lie.
To bridge these two worlds, I brought images of Dutch agricultural scenes to the source of our abundance. These photographs were exhibited on city buses throughout Casablanca as part of a mobile exhibition.
With this project, I aim to highlight the deep and often invisible interdependence between distant places, people, and the food on our plates
