The above photo takes my breath away. Words don't need to be written or said; just thoughts, visions, flashing through my mind, twisting on, downward through those sandy halls. Chris Gray took this Dali-like photo in the diamond "ghost" town of Kolmanskop, Namibia. Forgotten and abandoned, it's like those memories which get lost in the recesses of the mind, the forgotten projects and passions which you never thought you'd give up on. Stories and secrets which just get buried in your soul, become a part of your subconscious and help make up who you are without you even fully realizing. A romantic reflection on a picture which, for all its haunting, eery beauty, also captures the impressions of past colonialism, and intriguingly begs the question: where do the descendants of the families who used to live here live now? Are their lives any more secure? Is anyone's? What heaping changes there are which have take place in the lives of an individual, of a country.
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