Digging in the Shadow of NEMO

This part of Oosterdokseiland was a building site back in 2011, and I rather enjoyed picking my way around the fencing. NEMO's great green copper hull sits across the water like a ship that has run aground on purpose and this afternoon it had a proper foil in the foreground: a battered Caterpillar 385B from Oudtzwanenburg's demolition crew, parked on a churned slab of rubble and looking entirely unbothered by the architecture behind it. Fifteen years on, and the island is all glass and […]

https://inphotos.org/2026/05/12/digging-in-the-shadow-of-nemo/

When a Building Came Down

August 2009, Castle Street in Cork. A building that had been under renovation gave up and came down, taking a chunk of the terrace with it and flattening a silver Peugeot 206 that had the misfortune ofbeing parked on the pavement. The roof is caved in like a tin can someone stood on, with a lorry tyre perched on top for good measure. The wider shots tell the rest of the story: a clean gap in the row of shops, the neighbour's render suddenly exposed to the weather, rubble spilling into the […]

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/22/when-a-building-came-down/

When a Building Came Down

August 2009, Castle Street in Cork. A building that had been under renovation gave up and came down, taking a chunk of the terrace with it and flattening a silver Peugeot 206 that had the misfortune ofbeing parked on the pavement. The roof is caved in like a tin can someon...

https://inphotos.org/2026/04/22/when-a-building-came-down/

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