Mar 16, 2012
Next stop Atlantic / Stéphen Mallon
Une douzaine d’images de Stéphen Mallon sur le dernier trajet de rames du métro new-yorkais, qui les mènent droit dans l’Atlantique. Une méthode de recyclage pas si originale que ça, qui consiste à dépolluer les rames et les déposer sur des fonds peu profonds pour constituer des récifs propices aux poissons.
L’occasion de réaliser quelques images fortes et graphiques particulièrement intéressantes. On pourra aussi en profiter pour voir les quelques vidéos proposées par Stéphen Mallon…
Can you imagine if you were on the last drop? You get on the train expecting to get out at Atlantic Station and end up hitting the Atlantic Ocean instead. Seeing these massive mechanisms being tossed into the ocean like a toy in the bathtub is a ping in my heart. I have always been attached to these machines, their surreal beauty integrated into their functional engineering. At first I was stunned, the moments of violent recycling, watching the water quickly adapt to its new underwater houses. After being pushed and stacked like a sardine in these subways cars over the past decade, it is nice to see the sardine actually getting one of these as its new steel condo. These unbelievable photographs were captured over the past three years from Delaware to South Carolina. Since the 1600’s man has artificially created reefs. The Metropolitan Transit Authority’s recycling program has been involved for the past decade, retiring over 2500 subways cars to the ocean to help rebuild underwater reefs along the eastern seabed. These are my images, seconds before these mass transit vessels join history in building homes for life under the sea.
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