The photographic project initiated in 2015, after Mariana’s mining tailings dam rupture in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, inspired by Claude Lévi-Strauss’s idea – “the world began without man and will complete itself without him” (Tristes Tropiques, 1955); it tells the story of Man on Earth, going through different geological epochs, since its inception until an alleged disappearance. Following an archaeological perspective – pictures from material traces and human-produced environmental interventions – the research dives into an apocalyptic scenario of the disaster to question the anthropic occupation mode and the legitimacy at its own right to every ecumene. All the pictures are produced in the outskirts of Samarco’s mining company, Mariana city. Mixing different places, different geological eras, the project recounts the story of man through the contraposition of images with elements that transports to different moments in planet’s recent history. A time marked by a change in the geological epoch when, for the first time in Earth’s history, an animal species, Homo sapiens, was no longer a biological force and has become a force with geological duration and range; this new epoch, “the Anthropocene (or give it any other name you may wish to) is an age in the geological sense of the term, but it points to the end of the ‘agety’ as such in what species is concerned. Despite the fact that it had started with us, it very likely will end without us: the Anthropocene will only have to give place to another geological age much after we have disappeared from the face of the Earth” (Débora Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro). Somewhere between documentary and fiction, the project tells the history from a hypothetical point of view, of a future where the Man would have already disappeared from the Earth. Without the man’s physical direct presence in images, following an archaeological perspective, the project documents the human traces that, scribbled in the layers of the Earth, cannot be erased – irreversible facts of our present and past that coexist until nowadays.