Série - FotoSlovo 2025 - Category « Enjeux environnementaux et Climatiques »

Household salt and vinegar, still promoted as bio-friendly herbicides, have an all-destructive impact on the soil where more than 60% of all organisms live.

My mother accidentally poured vinegar over her newly bought crate of violets. The plants wilted instantly. A similar process is happening increasingly at a global level due to climate change and agricultural practices.

An estimated 1/5 of agricultural grounds have been affected worldwide. Salt was used to fatally destroy a community in biblical times. Salinization creates new deserts and impacts food production for an ever-growing world population.

Process:

By picking plants from my own garden and spraying them with salt, putting them on old photographic paper, soaking negatives in salt or using salt in all kinds of different ways, the process of salinization is materialized in thefinal image.