Abandoned

Patagonia

Through this series of images, I want to highlight these objects abandoned as they melt with the Patagonian landscape.

This presence, more and more natural of  run-down materials, forcefully struck me, during my progress toward the southernmost part of Argentina, Tierra del Fuego. The major problem, in order to repair or recycle these materials, comes mainly from huge distances between cities in addition to the economics situation or lack of money. Abandoning, thus remains the only solution and slowly fits into the decor and inhospitable austere of this southern land, where wind, rain and cold reign above all. 

Covering an area three times greater than France, and a density equivalent to say that in New York City there are only 48 people... Patagonia represents mountainous areas,  deserts and a few plots of villages.

[…]though the sense of sublimity,

which the great deserts of Patagonia and the forest-clad mountains of Tierra del Fuego excited in me,

has left an indelible impression on my mind.

The sight of a naked savage in his native land is an event which can never be forgotten

Charles DARWIN, 1887

I'm afraid of disappointing,

I'm afraid of not being good enough,

I'm afraid of hurting people.

Fear arrives, it emerges, it is calmed, it is more acute,

it is softer, it becomes an energy, a driving force […]

Vast open spaces calm - a little- this fear

ERRANCE, Raymond Depardon

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