Gluckauf - Bertien van Manen children with Jon Ronson // 40

with Jon Ronson // 40 years since the miner’s strike

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Gluckauf - Bertien van Manen children with Jon Ronson // 40Bertien van Manen grew up in Heerlen, the centre of the eastern part of the former Dutch coal mining region, where her father worked as an engineer for the State Mines. This publication brings together photographs Bertien van Manen made in different mining towns: Wakefield and New Sharlston, Yorkshire (UK, 1970s), Most (CZ, 1980s), the Appalachian Mountains (US, 1980 1990s), and Apanas, Siberia (RU, 1990s).