Hyesan is 120 km from the Punggye-ri nuclear test site where North Korea is estimated to have conducted six underground nuclear tests since 2006. The city of Hyesan in North Korea’s Ryanggang province sits across the Yalu River from the Chinese border town of Changbai. The North Korean city of Hyesan, about 120km from North Korea’s nuclear test site, October 2017. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex near Langdon, North Dakota, in the mid 1970s – a radar and anti-ballistic missile defence site which was shuttered by 1979. A missile field in rural North Dakota near the Canadian border which held Sprint and Spartan anti-ballistic missiles designed to intercept attacking nuclear warheads from Soviet missiles coming over the North Pole. Hatches over silos which in the 1970s held missiles meant to shoot down incoming Soviet warheads, North Dakota, November 2017. My intention was to get the viewer to suspend their sense of place and perhaps moral judgement: who gets to call whom a “rouge state” or decide how many nuclear warheads is too many?įeatured in The New Yorker: From “Fallout”, 2017, 35mm digital. In this exhibition commission for the Nobel Peace Prize 2017 - won by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) - I created a series of diptychs pairing nuclear-related landscapes from the North Korea-China border and the United States. Fallout (China-North Korea border, United States, 2017)
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