Anthropocosmos, where no one has gone before

2022 - ongoing

In the era termed “Anthropocosmos” — during which human activity is considered to be a significant influence on the balance, beauty, and ecology of the entire universe — contemporary human imagination is easily intrigued by the dream and upgrade of science and technology with a renewed sense of urgency.

We are entering a new space age with dreams of brave new worlds and discoveries that present us with novel questions and challenges. The exploration of more distant worlds is no longer science fiction but is fast becoming reality: space tourism missions by private companies and billionaire entrepreneurs, NASA’s successful Mars rover landing in 2021 and the James Webb Space Telescope launch early this year – all these advances testify to an acceleration by a growing number of states and nonstate actors of space exploration this century.

Beyond these scientific questions lie crucial geopolitical, military and economic stakes. Space still reflects tensions on Earth: astropolitics follows terrapolitics. If mining celestial resources becomes a reality, who owns space and its resources? Can the idea of space as a global commons survive in the face of private corporate space-related activities? Will these technological advances benefit mankind as a whole or that of a few?

This photographic project invites us to focus on our perceptions of space, time and travel, the real and the imaginary of this new space age. It is a voyage with a different temporality recalling the great historic expeditions of Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus or Magellan.

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