Nauru, 2019
Landing on the island with the hardest visa regime, ever (at least for me)
Nauru, 2019
Enjoying a ride on the island's circle road, leading in 16km around
Nauru, 2019
Whiling an afternoon away, with defunct machinary of the once prospering phosphate mining industry in the background. Nauruans were once living large, as being citizens of one of the planet's wealthiest nations.
Nauru, 2019
Nauru once made biilions off bird poop, left by seagulls using the island over thousands of years as their preferred restroom in the South Pacific.
Nauru, 2019
As time went on, the guano calcified, leaving Nauru rich with phosphates, which once was sought world-wide to produce fertilizer.
Nauru, 2019
An officer of the Australian Migrants Detention Facility takes a bath at one of Nauru's rare beaches. Selling fossilized bird poop was lucrative but once all bird ppop was gone. And Nauru needed another business model...
Nauru, 2019
Defunct phosphate mining machinery
Nauru, 2019
Defunct phosphate mining machinery
Nauru, 2019
Gym, Nauru, 2019
With the discovery of Nauru’s phosphate resources in the early 1900s, Nauru was first colonized by Germany, then by Australia and finally by Japan before the country fbecame independant in 1968..
Residential containers of Australian Migrants Detention Facility Staff, Nauru, 2019
Nauru, 2019
Cuba's capital offers many pleasures, among them an amazing mix of architecture, Art Deco, Modernism, Neoclassicism, Colonial and Barocque famous architects like walter Gropius, Occar Niemeyer, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe roamed once through town.
Entrance to Australian Migrants Detention Facility Staff, Nauru, 2019
Nauru, 2019
Nepalese migrant assisting as sales assisant in a Chinese-run shop, caught on Nauru since six years.
Nauru, 2019
Nauru, 2019
Will the dawn of tomorrow bring a solution to the global migration crisis?