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The Final Days of the Czech Mines
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The Final Days of the Czech Mines

In January 2026, the ČSM mine in the Czech Republic closed for good, bringing 250 years of coal mining in the Ostrava–Karviná region to an end and marking the close of a defining industrial era.
Love for the Silesian mines—Interview with Marek Locher
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Love for the Silesian mines—Interview with Marek Locher

Marek Locher is a Polish documentary photographer, who has been documenting Silesian mines for a long time. We asked him about how he started photographing, why he chose the Silesian landscape and the mine as a subject, how he interacts with the miners, and how difficult it is to work