Looking at Lubmin
Photographic fieldwork · Lubmin nuclear power plant
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Looking at Lubmin is self-initiated photographic fieldwork in the decommissioned Lubmin nuclear power plant on the Baltic coast, made during its dismantling.
The plant was the largest in East Germany; after 1990 it did not return to the grid. What remains is a structure built for decades of operation in which only one operation now takes place: its dismantling.
The work documents this state — a machine hall that has become the worksite of its own disassembly, control rooms whose switches are no longer connected to anything, and the singular order of a place that is not demolished but taken apart in a controlled way.
Access was made possible for me by EWN GmbH, the company responsible for the dismantling.
Technique: photography
With thanks to: EWN GmbH · Markus Schiemann