2024年3月23日 · Explore the history and lasting impact of coal through photographs and voices from Scottish mining communities. In 1982, American photographer Milton Rogovin came to Scotland to photograph Scottish miners at their pits, in their homes, and during their leisure time.

Mountaintop removal coal mining continues to scar the Appalachian Mountains. Although the coal industry has declined due to market forces, mountains and streams are still being destroyed, and communities are still being harmed.

Large-scale coal mining developed during the Industrial Revolution, and coal provided the main source of primary energy for industry and transportation in industrial areas from the 18th century to the 1950s. Coal remains an important energy source. [1] .

2024年5月4日 · The process of mountaintop removal mining involves clearcutting swaths of trees along mountaintops, lining the mountaintop crests with explosives to gain access to the coal seams underneath, and finally using draglines to remove coal from the site.

More than an exercise in nostalgia, Before and After Coal is the result of an innovative collaboration between artist Nicky Bird, the National Galleries of Scotland and mining communities. The project was inspired by the work of American photographer Milton Rogovin who in 1982 photographed Scottish mineworkers at work, at home and at leisure.

2024年3月24日 · Revisiting and updating photographs from the 1980s, Before and After Coal, a collaboration between NGS, artist Nicky Bird, and mining communities, documents the real lives and experiences of...

2024年7月26日 · Milton Rogovin was a key exponent of documentary photography in the second half of the 20th century, documenting ordinary people and industrial labourers in the United States and South America early on in his career, before beginning a series in the 1980s centred around coal, travelling around the world to countries including Zimbabwe, China ...

More than an exercise in nostalgia, Before and After Coal is an innovative collaboration between Bird, the National Galleries of Scotland and mining communities.

2024年3月1日 · Thomas Dickson began his career in electrical engineering as an apprentice electrician in the Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange. In this interview he outlines his mining career 1972 to 1984, memories of coal mine water, working underground, and training as Mines Rescue volunteer.

2024年9月12日 · Explore the stories and lives of people in and around three Scottish mining communities through blogs, video, audio recordings and the photographs of Milton Rogovin and Nicky Bird.