Abandoned Interiors Swept Under Sand

Our featured article on deserted cities where numerous buildings and entire street infrastructures have gaped empty for years and decades on end can be found here. One of these cities, Kolmanoskop in the Namibia desert, more precisely the interiors of the abandoned buildings in the city, inspired the Spanish photograph Alvar Sanchez Montañes to create a series of photographs.  In his series called “Desert Indoors” he documented the interiors of abandoned houses of the town which was built in 1908 by Dutch settlers on a quest for diamonds.  When the site “dried up” in 1956 the houses in the town were abandoned. Dozens of years later they became a tourist attraction, and the motives on Montañes’s photos show interiors of buildings where all rooms are completely covered with fine desert sand. The presentations seem slightly apocalyptic but still unusually beautifully document isolation, loneliness and magical mysteriousness. For further works of this photographer, click here.