Altai Territory. Villagers collecting scrap from a crashed spacecraft surrounded by butterflies.
This picture is part of Jonas Bendiksen's celebrated series 'Satellites: Photographs from the Fringes of the Former Soviet Union' (2006)—here a few more instagram.com/p/CBxmFg_jRfU/
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'There are two young guys', says Jonas Bendiksen, 'local farmers I think, who are pulling copper wire from the hull of a crashed Soyuz spacecraft [...] I was chasing a story about people who live in the areas under the flightpath of space rocket launches from Baikonur'
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'So I was photographing these men who had started ripping up the spaceship. It had just rained heavily, and the storm clouds were passing in the background, giving that dark background. The sky filled with thousands of white butterflies [...]
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Farmers, space rocket, butterflies, sunlight on stormy skies: all in all this is probably one of the most surreal and magical moments ever to pass before my eyes.'
Here you can find the whole intereview:
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Crashed spacecrafts (Soyuz) by Jonas Bendiksen
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Kazakhstan. The flaming wreck of a rocket after it crashed during the night (2000) as photographed by Jonas Bendiksen
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This is Jonas Bendiksen's official website where you can enjoy a generous selection from 'Satellites' jonasbendiksen.com/Books/Satellit
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À propos of Soyuz... A Soyuz-FG rocket carrying a Soyuz TMA spacecraft launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on 18 September 2006 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(ro
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