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№ 05 · Personal · Desert

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Namib Desert, Namibia

Sixteen days among the oldest dunes on earth, watching the wind rebuild the ridges every night and photographing them before anyone walked across.

Golden sand dunes stretching away under soft sunlight
Dune WeatherAutumn 2024

Dates

5/2 → 5/18/24

Camera

Hasselblad X2D · 90mm

Frames

20 photographs

Client

Personal work

Prints

Archival pigment · Ed. of 12

I went to the Namib to photograph something that never holds still. The dunes shift by a few centimetres every night, and by sunrise the ridgelines are sharp again.

I shot almost everything with a long lens from a distance, so the shapes read as drawing rather than scenery.

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