Kevin McElvaney is based in Hamburg, Germany. Kevin’s previous projects include documenting the pickers at Agbogbloshie’s e-waste dump outside of Accra, Ghana. To see more of Kevin’s work, visit his website at www.derkevin.com
It’s not your average subject – a sulphurous volcano in the Indonesian province of East Java – but for 27-year-old Kevin McElvaney, Ijen, which stands at more than 2,500 metres high, was a photographic challenge too good to pass up. The documentary photographer, who lives in Hamburg in northern Germany, came across the volcano after watching a documentary film about the veteran photographer James Nachtwey. In the 2001 film
War Photographer, Nachtwey is seen photographing the Ijen volcano, situated towards the east of the region, battling, as McElvaney says, the heavy clouds of sulphur that almost engulf…
