ELEMENTS - photo exhibition
Katia and Maurice Krafft - Living on Fire
Katia and Maurice Krafft - two of world's most popular volcanologists - travelled, observed, and documented hundreds of volcanoes for more than 30 years.
Driven by strongest curiosity, they visited the active volcanoes of the world, seeking the answers to fundamental scientific questions - until, on June 3rd 1991 - on of their friends, the Unzen Volcano, became there murderer. Katia and Maurice Krafft, as well as several other volcanologists, died in a pyroglastic surge on Japans Kyushu Island.
Their heritage: more than 450.000 volcano pictures, five wonderful movies about the strength and dynamics of eruptions and twenty scientific and popular books as well as uncountable scientific publications.
ELEMTENTS showed 64 selected volcano pictures to underline the beauty of one of the most feared natural events.
The fascination and the mystery of Earth's Volcanoes still lives in these pictures.
The travelling exhibition ELEMENTS was conducted by the Vulcania-Museum of France. In close co-operation with the co-ordination office GEOTECHNOLOGIEN, ELEMENTS was shown in Germany for the first time ever.
»Tourplan«:
March 7 to May 27, 2008
Geologischer Dienst NRW (Geological Survey of NRW), Krefeld
June 6 to August 24, 2008
City of Bad Dürrenberg
September 3 to November 28, 2008
Museum for Natural Sciences, Chemnitz
