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The Airport The 30 photographs in this chronological series were created in 2012 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.), a previous home and a place I often return to. The imagery depicts Congolese exploring abandoned planes beside the runway at Goma airport. At the time, filmmaker Dan McCabe and I would often drive by and see the planes, now no longer there, which were a kind of spectacle for locals and visitors alike. They were impossible to visit, as they were located inside a Congolese military installation. But at some point, due to an ongoing Congolese war with the M23 militia, the Congolese military had fled the installation and city, creating a security vacuum. One afterno...View all