David Lauer

David Lauer lives in Chihuahua Mexico where he has been working as a photographer since 1992 to document the vast Chihuahuan Desert, the
destruction and conservation of the Sierra Madre’s forests, and numerous social movements. Since 2003, his photography has highlighted maize, the defence of biodiversity and the struggle to keep genetically modified seeds out of Mexico.

My Posts

A Spirit Never to Betray

David Lauer
5th February, 2025
What happens when an ancestral relationship between a plant and its people is severed by industralisation and the ambition of global market? 'What are the implications for the plant, the land, the people and the spirit itself?'. Photographer and writer David Lauer investigates the fate of the agave sotol in Chichuahua, Mexico.
Dark KitchenOf Earth and Empire