honorable mention
Jan Schölzel germany
title
The Promise
Fusing one gram of hydrogen could release as much energy as burning 10.8 million gram of coal. Therefore the fuel needed for a fusion power plant in a year could fit inside a car. While a coal power plant with equal power output consumes a whole train worth of fuel every day. To achieve this goal the European Union, Russia, USA, China and others are building "ITER". The first reactor supposed to produce ten times more energy than was needed to run it.
Technologies have made our economic growth possible. Helped to create democracy and capitalism which provided equality and wealth. Gave us the confidence that we could fly to the moon and find vaccines for pandemics. With fusion energy as an example "The Promise" shows our faith in innovations und the wish for unlimited growth in a limited world.
Apart from that he‘s heavily inspired by science fiction movies like Arrival, Blade Runner 2049 and Dune. He therefore likes to create stories which capture the atmosphere of a place and does so by mixing portraits with stills and architecture.
Jan is studying photography at Fachhochschule Dortmund while working as a freelancer.
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entry description
Since mankind knows about the energy inside the atom and build the first fission reactor scientist from all around the world try to tame the process that produces the suns energy. Nuclear fusion. The technology sounds too good to be true. It's supposed to be cleaner than the burning of fossile fuels, less limited than renewable energy and safer than fission.Fusing one gram of hydrogen could release as much energy as burning 10.8 million gram of coal. Therefore the fuel needed for a fusion power plant in a year could fit inside a car. While a coal power plant with equal power output consumes a whole train worth of fuel every day. To achieve this goal the European Union, Russia, USA, China and others are building "ITER". The first reactor supposed to produce ten times more energy than was needed to run it.
Technologies have made our economic growth possible. Helped to create democracy and capitalism which provided equality and wealth. Gave us the confidence that we could fly to the moon and find vaccines for pandemics. With fusion energy as an example "The Promise" shows our faith in innovations und the wish for unlimited growth in a limited world.
about the photographer
Jan didn‘t start to become interested in photography until in the last year of school with a graduation focus on science. His fascination for fundamental physics led him to photograph at a few research institutes. For him, understanding the functionality of what he's taking pictures of is as important as photographing it and led him to love telling others about the science behind the image.Apart from that he‘s heavily inspired by science fiction movies like Arrival, Blade Runner 2049 and Dune. He therefore likes to create stories which capture the atmosphere of a place and does so by mixing portraits with stills and architecture.
Jan is studying photography at Fachhochschule Dortmund while working as a freelancer.
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