If the small mounds in the right-hand images bring to mind the mountains on the left, that's deliberate. They have been arranged as a ghostly rebuke to their removal from the Apuan Alps in Tuscany, Italy. These mountains are the source of prized Carrara marble, the same pure white stone that was used to create Michelangelo's David, as well as countless columns, floors and fireplace surrounds. The marble has been quarried for two millennia, but modern techniques are accelerating excavation, with the mountains disappearing before our eyes. There are now an estimated 800 quarries. "Every time I return to the Alps I see that a piece of them is missing," says Tuscan photographer Andrea Foligni, who took the images and juxtaposed them as part of a series.
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