On Lanzarote’s salt flats, workers build endless mounds of salt, mirroring the Sisyphus myth

At Lanzarote's Salinas de Janubio, a handful of veteran workers endlessly rake salt into small mounds, a cycle of labor that echoes the myth of Sisyphus.

Hypnotic, painterly images of an ancient, repetitive craft on a volcanic island.

Finding a source of fascination in the ever-repeating cycle that accompanies the salt mining process, director Ferdinand Feldmann travelled to Lanzarote, lensing the Salinas de Janubio salt evaporation ponds for experime

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