Energy Afterlives

CYANOTYPES

In Summer 2024, the STEMLA Fellows were honored to host Warren Cariou, a Winnipeg-based writer, photographer, film-maker, professor, storyteller, and activist. In addition to talking with us about petroleum and land relations in the Athabasca Tar Sands (and our own backyards), Warren led us in a cyanotype workshop to approximate his process in creating petrographs.

The students used found material from around Bryn Mawr's campus and the Silver Creek Acid Mine Drainage Remediation site in New Philadelphia, PA. They also took photographs inside and outside of the No. 9 Coal Mine in Coaldale, PA, stills from films we watched in our cluster, images related to fossil fuel extraction — and turned them into digital transparencies. They layered these found objects and images to create shadow-scapes that spoke to Energy Afterlives themes.
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Linked below are the pages our students created from their cyanotypes:
  1. "Burning Fossil Fuels" by Faiqah Oladejo
  2. "Cyanotype" by Samantha Duran
  3. "Cyanotype" by Arlene Ulloa
  4. "Memorial Hospital Cyanotype" by Lisa Li
  5. "Cyanotype" by Sofia Sergi
  6. "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene"
  7. "Cyanotype" by Zinat Nasrin
  8. "Cyanotype"
  9. "Cyanotype" by Joelle Wise
  10. "It Lasts Longer"
  11. "Love it or Lose it"
  12. "Cyanotype" by Marie-Claire Davenport
  13. "Cyanotype" by Rosa Ramirez Almanzar
  14. "Go Devil" by Kaitlyn Kruemmel
  15. "There Will Be Blood Cyanotype"
  16. "Cyanotype" by Taaliyat Ojifinni
  17. "Cyanotype" by Melanie Rosas-Reyes
  18. "AMD Site" by Daiana Azimova
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  1. Physicalizations and Visualizations José Vergara

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