When racehorses retire they spend their days frollicking about in lush green paddocks eating carrots and sugar cubes.
For ships, retirement is not such a pleasant experience. Out of service and abandoned ships end up rotting away at Nouadhibou Bay in Mouritania - the world's largest ship cemetary. In local parlance, Nouadhibou means 'where the jackals get fat'. It's a pretty grim place.
Photographer Jan Smith went there to 'seek beauty in what was left to be forgotten'. Artists are always doing this sort of thing - there isn't a burnt out car in Dalston which hasn't been papped to death - but, on this occasion, Smith finds what he's looking for ...
For ships, retirement is not such a pleasant experience. Out of service and abandoned ships end up rotting away at Nouadhibou Bay in Mouritania - the world's largest ship cemetary. In local parlance, Nouadhibou means 'where the jackals get fat'. It's a pretty grim place.
Photographer Jan Smith went there to 'seek beauty in what was left to be forgotten'. Artists are always doing this sort of thing - there isn't a burnt out car in Dalston which hasn't been papped to death - but, on this occasion, Smith finds what he's looking for ...
Via Good Magazine
Photo credit: Jan Smith
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