Video: "Happy End" - a photo project about aviation accidents with a happy ending
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Why do we love fairy tales? For a happy ending, of course. So in life, we so often try to find stories in which "everyone would live happily ever after." German photographer Dietmar Eckell set out to find happy … aircraft accidents … The results were drawn up in a special photo project, named simply and concisely "Happy End".
Technogenic accidents and catastrophes are a frequent topic in art. Some artists (like, for example, the American Heide Fasnacht) are inspired by explosions and destruction, while others are inspired by the cases when people managed to miraculously escape. Dietmar Eckel, a photographer from Dusseldorf, managed to find 15 aircraft, which ended their flight with an emergency landing (by no means on the runway) and whose passengers were not injured.
The project is the result of three years of work and travel around the world. Dietmar Eckel searched for aircraft in nine countries on four continents - from Australia to Iceland. Over the decades, the remains of aircraft have already become part of landscape landscapes: trees grow through broken glass in the forests, the fuselage is covered with sand in the desert, and in the mountains gray fragments of metal structures resemble rocky ledges. The photographer is attracted by these skeletons, first of all, by the fact that they are evidence of good luck and a reminder that happy accidents do happen.
To bring his project to life, Dietmar Eckel overcame many difficulties. He searched for many objects through Internet forums, learned the details from the pilots, which also took a long time to find. Dietmar compares his search work to a journey through the "expanses" of history. Traveling the world, he met the tribes living in Papua New Guinea, where there is no electricity or running water. In North Africa, he negotiated with a group of rebels to cross the border with Mauritania and get into the western Sahara.
Dietmar Eckel has not yet managed to get to such remote corners of our planet as Antarctica and Greenland, since the expedition there is too expensive. However, the motivated German is trying to find money to continue his project.
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