Stadium I, Chuquicamata, Chile, 2010 © Gregor Sailer Mirny VI, Yakutia, Russia, 2011 © Gregor Sailer Mirny IV, Yakutia, Russia, 2011 © Gregor Sailer Mirny I, Yakutia, Russia, 2011 © Gregor Sailer Nordelta III, Argentina 2011 © Gregor Sailer Oil Rocks VII, Azerbaijan, 2011 © Gregor Sailer Camp I, Ras Laffan, Qatar, 2010 © Gregor Sailer Camp III, Ras Laffan, Qatar, 2010 © Gregor Sailer Industrial Site II, Ras Laffan, Qatar, 2010 © Gregor Sailer Western Sahara, refugee camp © Gregor Sailer Western Sahara, refugee camp © Gregor Sailer Western Sahara, refugee camp © Gregor Sailer

Closed Cities (2009-2012) by Gregor Sailer

Excerpt from Closed Cities, published by Kehrer Verlag

The longterm project investigates closed communities in Algeria / Western Sahara, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Chile, Qatar, and Russia. By means of refined architectural and landscape photography I visualize these otherwise effectively invisible, artificially created urban agglomerations that are hermetically sealed off from the eyes of the world either by walls or by their hostile surroundings. The subjects are raw-material mines, military bases, and refugee camps, as well as gated communities for the wealthy. These temporally circumscribed forms of urban settlement succinctly reflect and reveal a historical turning point that the world is now experiencing at the turn of the 21st century: dwindling resources, climate changes, political conflicts, and the wish for absolute security.

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