The works produced in my RHEINBRAUN series function as the perfect complement to those from my 2004 project photographing London’s Battersea Power Station, an inoperative coal processing plant, shown in a state of noble ruin. My images of the Rheinbraun mine explore the capabilities of an industrialized civilization as well as the sites where such efforts culminate in ruin. Working with a forty-foot shipping container as my camera, the final photographs reflect the immensity of both the project’s undertaking and the landscape which they depict.