Industrial Landscape | Bernhard Lang

At nearly 1,200 feet deep, the Tagebau Hambach open-pit mine is one of the biggest holes in Europe.

Aerial photographs of the Tagebau Hambach coal mine, Germany.

Lang_AerialMine12B31.4_42cmyk — At nearly 1,200 feet deep, the Tagebau Hambach open-pit mine is one of the biggest holes in Europe.

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