Kolmanskop, a town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia, was once a rich diamond mining village. Within a 40 year span the town lived, flourished and then died. Richer diamond deposits were discovered further south, operations were moved, nature took its course and the desert sands reclaimed their space. Thank you, Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés, for capturing these hauntingly beautiful images!
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Wow! Those are incredibly beautiful. Captivating.
wow this is incredible.
Fashionable Collections
wow that is really gorgeous!
Love them ♥
oh wow!! beautiful photos! made my heart skip a beat 😉
xo ~ kristina
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Amazing!
Sometimes my car looks like that after I come back from the beach. 🙂
These are really amazing.
I love this place and I would love to visit it some day.
I believe Vogue UK also shot there for the May issue with Agyness Deyn. Definitely worth checking out!
Franzi
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..my eye caught the name first and then the pics, as hauntingly beautiful these pics are so it is in real life!! I have been there numerous times as we lived in the old South West (Namibie) and traveled the country alot! A feeling one can’t describe but only experience….a part of my heart is still there…
Yvette (South Africa)
wow this is so striking
…my eye caught the name first and then the pics, as hauntingly beautiful these pics are so it is in real life!! I have been there numerous times as we lived in the old South West (Namibie) and traveled the country alot! A feeling one can’t describe but only experience….a part of my heart is still there…
Yvette (South Africa)
ooooh, i want to play in there!
absolutely incredible. these photos are stunnign and speak so loudly the power of nature.
simply awesome.
These pictures are amazing but evoke sadness. Both nature and a place of inhabitance were stripped of what made them beautiful for greed and power. I can’t just look at these and think “Oh what a perfect place to shoot fashion” unless there was the message of the exploitation of the country. Sorry to be Debbie Downer
so gorgeous!
I would love a lifesize image of this.
these are amazing! you were right to describe them as hauntingly beautiful.. they are so eerie yet spectacular!
-Winnie
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wow, really beautiful!
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I just want to play in this! Awesome
i dont know why i love them so much!
holy shit. this is gorgeous.
absolutely incredible! looks like there’s still one gem left in that old diamond mining village 🙂 (get it?! hahaha)
xo,
susannah
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http://lavieetme.blogspot.com/
we are just guest hear till mother nature decides otherwise–
On first scroll thru I thought they were paintings. They mesmerize and enchant with their distinctiveness.
these images are crazy..
i lived in Guatemala and after some mud slides rural villages i helped dig out some houses and they looked exactly like this… brings back memories
I’m going there