Living heart of the machine

Series of 85 photographs of a new life form.

26 December 2021 Benoît Labourdette 5 min

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The machine, or machines, are now, and have been for a long time in fact, in mechanical life. They are the lungs of our lives: electricity, drinking water, various energies and automated production of the objects in which our lives are embodied. An attempt to photograph the source of this new form of life.

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