In Physics, particles called neutrinos are the most abundant and primordial particles in the universe, yet still an enigma to a large extend. They penetrate through matter without interacting with it, they are almost weightless, yet they tip the scales between matter and anti-matter towards the material existence of our world. The Universe exists in the form that we know it, because of neutrinos. The DUNE experiment, due to be performed in 2028, is trying to characterise in more detail these elusive particles and answer fundamental questions regarding the origin and the nature of our Universe. To achieve this, an artificial neutrino beam will be sent underground from the Fermilab outside Chicago to the Sanford Underground Research Facility, 1300 km away, in South Dakota.
I heard about the DUNE experiment during a visit to the Fermilab in 2017, shortly after the election of Donald Trump in November 2016, that sent shockwaves to the political scene globally. With the recent USA elections, the world is becoming more and more aware that there exists a previously invisible community mostly in rural areas that affects such decisions and is not taken into the equation. Therefore, I decided to use the DUNE beam line as the axis to document life of that community that had so much in common with neutrinos by using a medium format film camera, and drawing analogies between the macrocosmos of society and the microcosmos of particle physics."Neutrinos" wants to raise awareness of our social fabric and its diversity hidden in more remote areas of society, in order to build bridges between people who don’t communicate with each other and be a catalyst that commences social dialogue through the photographic lens.