Thank you for visiting Canaries in a mine!
My name is Marianna Plomariti, born in 1989 in Greece. I am a political scientist and a visual content creator with 9+ years of working experience, specialized in social media, video production and online campaign.
Canaries in a Mine is a photo project about coal extraction and human condition. It is an allusion to a mining tradition dating back to the beginning of the previous century when workers used to carry down canaries into the coal mine tunnels to detect toxic gases before they hurt humans. The constant human effort for progress and prosperity destroys the world we live in sacrificing living beings and depleting natural resources. Our continuously growing demands and our endless desires lead us all to a self-destructing impasse. The whole Anthropocene concept, that very second in the history of the Earth, is capable of crushing down everything that the human species considered as stable. The aim of this project is for the visitor to wander in a mosaic of images in a non-geographical context as the core of its essence is universal.
marianna.plomariti@gmail.com