PAISAJE MICROONDAS
On April the 3th, 1973, Martin Cooper, while walking on New York’s streets made the first cellphone call. Nowadays, in the world there are over 5000 million cellular phones in operation, so the direct and indirect economy related with cellular telephony presents non measurable dimensions and the cell phone is the most used device in the world.
Within the best climatic conditions, a cellular antenna may radiate it waves up to 35 kilometers. Currently a huge amount of the world’s surface has cellular coverage, so it is possible to imagine the great amount of towers devoted to this propose all-around the globe. On 2011, a study held by the ARC, Agency for the Cancer Research from the WHO (World’s Health Organization), established that “the use of cellular phones may increase the risk of suffering glyoma, a kind of malignant brain tumor. The information from the ARC, set the classification of the electromagnetic radio frequency fields as cancer agent from group 2B, potentially risk of cancer for mankind.
My ultimate photographic work reflects my interest in the consequences that our society is facing due to the lack of a balanced growth, sacrificed for the sake of the progress, consumption and economic profits. The importance given to these three particular idols of our society causes an accelerated assimilation of any outcome, which leads to the loss of consciousness of potential consequences for our planet and for the human kind. The Microwave Landscape Project is centered in the problems derived from the use of the cell phone, focusing the scope in the change of the landscape due to the uncontrollable growth of cellular antenna towers. The scarce individual consciousness regarding the dangers of the electromagnetic waves produced by the cell phones, is reinforced by the apparent invisibility of this omnipresence: very few people see the towers and even watching them, they are not considered as harmful.
My work reflects my interest in the consequences that our society is facing due to the lack of a balanced growth, sacrificed for the sake of the progress, consumption and economic profits. The Microwave Landscape Project is centered in the problems derived from the use of the cell phone, focusing the scope in the change of the landscape due to the uncontrollable growth of cellular antenna towers.