Xavier Ribas Author

Xavier Ribas is a photographer, based at the University of Brighton. Trained as an anthropologist interested in geography, urban studies, and the philosophy of history, his photographic work investigates contested sites and histories, border territories, and geographies of extraction. His recent works take the form of large photographic grids, often including text, archive materials, moving image, and sound. Acosta, Purbrick and Ribas work collectively on the project Traces of Nitrate (www.tracesofnitrate.org). Louise Purbrick is a writer and activist based at the Royal College of Art, London. She works on landscapes of extractivism, spaces of incarceration, border zones, colonial sites, and acts of everyday, ecological, and political resistance. Ignacio Acosta is a Chilean-born artist and researcher working with photography and video in territories under pressure from extractive industries. Stemming from his PhD at the University of Brighton, as part of the research project Traces of Nitrate, Copper Geographies was published in 2018. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism (CEMFOR) Uppsala University, Sweden.