Sim Chi Yin In the background, layers of black bags of sand form a cofferdam -- an enclosure built within a body of water to allow the enclosed area to be pumped out -- on the fringe of a parcel of reclaimed l (...)
and intended for the planned second airport in Xiamen, southern China. | The prosperous southern coastal city of Xiamen started in 2016 to reclaim land in preparation to build a controversial second airport on Dadeng Island, a 13 square kilometer island on the border of Xiamen and Kinmen island which belongs to Taiwan.
When the airport is completed on reclaimed land, the size of Dadeng island will have doubled.
The plans are that by 2025, the airport will have two runways, and be able to serve 45 million passengers per year. Right now, highways and subways connecting Xiamen and Dadeng Island are under construction. Although it’s widely reported that the airport is scheduled to be operational by 2020, there is at present no evidence that the central government and the military have given the final approval to the construction of the airport. China. 2018. From "Shifting Sands", 2017-on-going. This project was supported with a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. © Sim Chi Yin | Magnum Photos
Rafał Milach Improvised shelter by the Mexican - U.S. border wall. On February 23rd 2018, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office published The Final Report on Border Wall Mockup and Prototype Test. It pr (...)
esents, amongst other, various breaching and scaling tests of the eight future border wall prototypes proposed by Homeland Security in response to Donald Trump’s Executive Order #13767. The prototypes were nothing else, but a demonstration of power. They were not integrated into the new structure of the border wall that had been gradually replacing the old recycled Vietnam War helicopter landing panels. The project reflects upon the design of geographical and political division. It is dedicated to architecture of control and its impact on local landscape and urban structures. Mexico, Baja California, Tijuana. 05.2019 © Rafał Milach | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael Protestors gather at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C. near the White House on the evening of the last night of the RNC. Donald Trump accepted the Republican party nomination, followed by (...)
celebratory fireworks. Washington, D.C. USA. 2020. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos