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Kolmanskop

A doorway half-buried by sand in Kolmanskop, Namibia

How the sands of time have almost swallowed a German ghost town in the Namibian desert

Arts, Culture & Media

French photographer Romain Veillon has a thing for taking pictures of abandoned places. And you can’t get much more abandoned than Kolmanskop, a German diamond mining town in Namibia that became a virtual ghost town in the early 1950s. Veillon visited Kolmanskop last summer, and returned to France with 4,500 photos of a place where time, but not sand, has stood still for decades.

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