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Haines Gallery proudly presents Desolation Desert, an exhibition of photographs from David Maisel’s latest series of works. Created with the support of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Desolation Desert focuses on the massive copper and lithium mining operations that are impacting Chile’s vast Atacama Desert.

The Atacama Desert revealed in Desolation Desert contains a complex and contradictory series of developments. The highest and driest desert on the planet, this sensitive ecoregion is being transformed at an unparalleled pace and scale, as Chile responds to the global demand for …