Pascal Bollon

Tagged: 1920s

1929 June, on the Train from Dar Es Salam to Kigoma | Transvaal Blue Skies

1929 June | On the Train from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma

Off we go. With a shudder, the train coughs away slowly out of the station. In a furious cloud of steam, a piercing whistle, it valiantly gathers speed. Soonish, the heat of an African mid-day Sun starts bleeding off the metal. The breeze still burns hot, but it holds a…

December 1929 - Africa - South Kivu - Ngandja - Lubichako - the Garden - Suzanne with gun (AI adjusted)

Suzanne’s Laager

This is a society that existed but no one remembers. This is a society that existed but no one wants to remember. This is a society that was already forgotten even when it existed. This is a society between societies, a time between times, a world between worlds. They were…

Core sampling

Core Sampling

We take for granted the copper of our electrical lines, the iron in our concrete, the rare metals that allowed us to engineer mobile phones that fit in a suit pocket. But all of it starts with finding the ore. True enough, digging up ore is a millennia old activity....