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Carlos Crespo

Carlos Crespo - The forgotten desert 51

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Sales price: 3135,00 €

Carlos Crespo - The forgotten desert 46

Silver Carbon pigment print by the author

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Carlos Crespo - The forgotten desert 43

Silver Carbon pigment print by the author

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Carlos Crespo - The forgotten desert 40

Silver Carbon pigment print by the author

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Carlos Crespo - The forgotten desert 3

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Carlos Crespo - The forgotten desert 28

Silver Carbon pigment print by the author

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Carlos Crespo - The forgotten desert 27

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Carlos Crespo - The forgotten desert 22

Silver Carbon pigment print by the author

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Carlos Crespo - The forgotten desert 18

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Carlos Crespo - The forgotten desert 17

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Carlos Crespo - The forgotten desert 15

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Informations about the artist

A vast, empty landscape in the farthest reaches of the Inner Mongolia province of China, Badain Jaran is one of the few environs in the world that has not been obsessively catalogued, photographed, and explored in this age of Google Maps and Lonely Planet travel guides. Except for two German-Chinese research expeditions in 1988 and 1993, the desert remained mostly unknown to Western travelers.
From 2009 and 2012, artist and photographer Carlos Crespo made several trips to the virtually untouched and almost inaccessible region to document both the starkly beautiful scenery and the lives of the few Mongolian herdsmen who dwell on the fringes of the desert. Crespo recorded Barain Jaran’s numerous sand dunes, some of which reach 1,600 feet tall, and the freshwater and saline lakes that dot the desert. His stunning photographs were all taken while battling the intemperate weather of the region; winter temperatures can get as low as -40°F and the spring and autumn bring violent sandstorms.