I am fascinated by destruction and human indifference. It is these things that attract me to photograph certain places; one of those places being the Desert Spring Village in the heart of Dubai.
The Dubai Metro unlike other metros, is located above the ground. As it paces through the city, one gets a glance at things from above. Every day I would get on the metro and pass by the Desert Spring Village and I was always fascinated by it. Surrounded by skyscrapers, lay a small, lusciously green community; single floor buildings, with trees taller than the roofs of the houses, and small roads winding through the metal boxes. However, what fascinated me most was the part of the compound that had been demolished with the rubble left right where it had been knocked down.
When I finally decided to go there and document it close up, I was even more shocked by what I saw. It felt like I was in a ghost town, in the middle of one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
When I finally decided to go there and document it close up, I was even more shocked by what I saw. It felt like I was in a ghost town, in the middle of one of the fastest growing cities in the world.