The Pole Village - The Black Sky Series

it was a windy and rainy day when I walked on the beach close to the small village of Petten (NH) in October 2023. I had heard about the Pole Village (Palendorp) art installation and wanted to photograph the project which was designed by the contractor consortium Van Oord-Boskalis who was responsible for reinforcing the coastline in 2015. The Pole Village was installed in 2016 as a gift to the municipality of Petten.

I digitally reworked the photo's with dark black skies as a protest against the human (and political) indifference toward today's climate crisis ... read the full story on the photo’s and pages below.

All photo’s © Jan van der Gaag