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Illuminated oil rig at blue hour anchored off the coast, its lights reflected in the sea

Issue 08 · Industry meets Postcard

Curaçao

Oil rigs parked in turquoise water. A wreck on a coral island. Fireworks over a yellow church.

Curaçao 15 Days November 2023

Curaçao is the Caribbean with a refinery. Rigs anchor off the beaches between contracts, a Chevrolet rusts under a tree, and on the last night of November Willemstad sets off fireworks over the Fortkerk.

Curaçao

15
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1
Place
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Country
2023
November 2023

Chapter 01 · The rigs

Caracasbaai

Curaçao, Curaçao→
Illuminated oil rig at blue hour anchored off the coast, its lights reflected in the sea
An oil rig parked off Caracasbaai. Blue hour, all lights on.Curaçao · 2023

Industry against paradise. Nobody asked either of them, and the picture is the better for it.

Retired oil rig above turquoise water and a rocky shoreline under cumulus clouds
Industry meets postcard. Nobody asked either of them. Curaçao · 2023
Rusting shipwreck on a rocky shore of Klein Curaçao, a crooked rusty pole in the foreground
Klein Curaçao. The wreck has been here since 1977. Curaçao · 2023

Chapter 02 · Murals, rust, the last night of November

Willemstad

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Large mural of a woman in a red dress with a tree of flowers for hair on a weathered wall
Willemstad. The wall was painted the year before, the paint is already leaving. Curaçao · 2023
Rusted vintage car with chrome grille abandoned under a tree in the sun
Somewhere on the west side. A Chevrolet, roughly 1950, roughly finished. Curaçao · 2023
Fireworks bursting above the yellow Fortkerk church in Willemstad at night
Willemstad, the last night of November. Curaçao · 2023
Retired oil rig above turquoise water and a rocky shoreline under cumulus clouds

Last frame.

Issue 08 · Curaçao

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Issue 02 · North to South

Vietnam

Fifteen days. One country, top to bottom. Fog, gold and the last light.

Two weathered giant stone hands lifting the Golden Bridge out of the mist at Ba Na Hills
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