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‘Waste in Gorleben’ – Volker WENZLAWSKI c/o SOLAR UND FOTOGRAFEN investigates the nuclear waste repository, long contested and ultimately never realized, for the agency’s own magazine RELEVANZ

“When I ask my friends what Gorleben and nuclear waste is all about, almost everyone remembers the transport of radioactive material. Which is not surprising : The thirteen transports from 1995 to 2011 took place under massive protest of anti-nuclear activists. Up to 30,000 police officers were on duty to secure the transport, and spectacular images went through the media.

The fact that not one of the 113 waste containers is stored in the salt dome in Gorleben, however, is lesser known. The exploration mine is merely a 1.6 billion euro underground industrial ruin, which is not suitable for the long-term storage of nuclear waste. In September 2020, the salt dome was finally eliminated from the search for permanent storage sites after 40 years of protest – with an argument, by the way, which was already stated in an expert’s report from 1983 : The underground cap rock does not provide adequate protection against water intrusion.

The high-level radioactive waste is stored above ground in a cement hall. Where it will be stored in the future is still uncertain – because there are no permanent storage sites for high-level radioactive nuclear waste. Neither in Germany nor anywhere else...

 
 
 
 

André LAAME c/o SEPIA portrays President of the Austrian National Bank Robert Holzmann for WIRTSCHAFTSWOCHE

André Laame creates portraits and illustrations to remember that are just as much food for thought. Lively painting meets elegant illustration. Particularly in his portraits, he likes to use painting techniques, which can be seen in his new work for the magazine Wirtschaftswoche. Depicted in the photo is the President of the Austrian National Bank, Robert Holzmann. He is considered the “Falcon of the European Central Bank”. According to Holzmann, the extremely lax...

 

‘Extreme Pain, but Also Extreme Joy’ – Maggie Shannon wins at the Global Peace Photo Award 2021 for the Peace Image of the Year

On the evening of the UN International Day of Peace, 21 September 2021, winners of the international photography competition, Global Peace Photo Award, were awarded for the ninth time at the Austrian Parliament in Vienna. Recipients of Alfred-Fried Peace medals for their work are : Nate Hofer for ‘One and a Half Acres’, Shabana Zahir for ‘Our Journey’, Derrick Ofusu Boateng for ‘Peace and Strength’, Snezhana von Büdingen for ‘Meeting Sofie’, and Maggie Shannon for ‘Extreme Pain, but Also Extreme Joy ’.

Winner of the Global Peace Photo Award main prize Peace Image of the Year 2021, worth € 10000, is Maggie Shannon for her reportage about home births during the first lockdown in Los Angeles in spring 2020. The hospitals are flooded with Covid patients. In the maternity wards, spouses are not allowed. Many women want to give birth at home. Without mask, with the fathers. They are afraid...

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