Night time tremors

Katrin Streicher’s project Night Time Tremors began in 2013 in Kiruna, a small city in Sweden, north of the Artic Circle. The city came to be - and grew - over the last century, in direct response to the iron ore mining that is the primary source of income in the area. Now that very mining is causing the city’s collapse. Iron is extracted from Kirunavaara mountain via underground explosions that cause the earth to tremor every night. Each blast results in cracks and deformities in the landscape, with the impact moving slowly but steadily towards the city of Kiruna. Night Time Tremors captures a place where normalcy continues on unsteady ground, both literally and figuratively.