Almería Under Pressure

Hot Milk

This flow follows the landscape of drought, tourism, recession, and exploited labour as a force shaping the characters’ lives.

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Bearing strength in each event

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Plastic Over the Desert Plastic Over the Desert from "Hot Milk". A Covered Landscape Greenhouse expansion Sofia sees immense white plastic structures across the valleys and learns they shelter intensive farms in the desert.

Plastic Over the Desert from "Hot Milk". A Covered Landscape Greenhouse expansion Sofia sees immense white plastic structures across the valleys and learns they shelter intensive farms in the desert.

A Covered Landscape Greenhouse expansion Sofia sees immense white plastic structures across the valleys and learns they shelter intensive farms in the desert. Hidden labour The farms produce supermarket vegetables through the work of undocumented migrants, exposing the human cost beneath apparent abundance.

The Furnace and the Factory The Furnace and the Factory from "Hot Milk". A Stripped Region Industrial landscape The taxi passes the cement-producing town of Carboneras, where the mountains have been stripped of trees for fuel.

The Furnace and the Factory from "Hot Milk". A Stripped Region Industrial landscape The taxi passes the cement-producing town of Carboneras, where the mountains have been stripped of trees for fuel.

A Stripped Region Industrial landscape The taxi passes the cement-producing town of Carboneras, where the mountains have been stripped of trees for fuel. The body of austerity Sofia sees environmental damage as part of a wider landscape in which people, land, and resources are used up.

Unpaid Painters Unpaid Painters from "Hot Milk". Labour Without Protection A precarious job Two Mexican painters work at the diving school while Pablo shouts at them; one is dismissed while still owed money.

Unpaid Painters from "Hot Milk". Labour Without Protection A precarious job Two Mexican painters work at the diving school while Pablo shouts at them; one is dismissed while still owed money.

Labour Without Protection A precarious job Two Mexican painters work at the diving school while Pablo shouts at them; one is dismissed while still owed money. Unequal exposure Their insecurity echoes Sofia’s own dependence on temporary work, though they face the additional danger of having no secure legal status.

The Market’s Economies The Market’s Economies from "Hot Milk". Informal Exchange Small livelihoods At the market, traders sell food, watches, and household goods while customers bargain in a recession-scarred economy.

The Market’s Economies from "Hot Milk". Informal Exchange Small livelihoods At the market, traders sell food, watches, and household goods while customers bargain in a recession-scarred economy.

Informal Exchange Small livelihoods At the market, traders sell food, watches, and household goods while customers bargain in a recession-scarred economy. Different kinds of scarcity Rose buys an extravagant watch, while Sofia thinks about homelessness and the lack of a home of her own.

An Uneasy Abundance An Uneasy Abundance from "Hot Milk". Plenty and Precarity Visible plenty Tomatoes, fish, fruit, and tourist services fill the region, yet the story repeatedly reveals unstable work and…

An Uneasy Abundance from "Hot Milk". Plenty and Precarity Visible plenty Tomatoes, fish, fruit, and tourist services fill the region, yet the story repeatedly reveals unstable work and…

Plenty and Precarity Visible plenty Tomatoes, fish, fruit, and tourist services fill the region, yet the story repeatedly reveals unstable work and environmental strain. A connected crisis The abundant landscape does not erase hardship; it makes the economic and ecological costs harder to ignore.

Early in the Almería stay

On the drive to the clinic

During Sofia’s first days beside the diving school

During Rose’s market outing

Near the end of the Almería stay