NIKON

Nikon Photo Contest 2018-2019
Open Award photo story

Silver Prize

Life After People

陈 嘉俊(Jiajun Chen)

China

Story

These photos were taken in Pyramiden during my trip.The day before departure from Longyearbean I realized that Pyramiden was closed in 1998 and has since remained largely abandoned with most of its infrastructure and buildings still in place. Pyramiden has a great past and once had over 1,000 inhabitants. After 20 years,I'm very curious how is has changed.What makes Pyramiden became a ghost town?What's the feelings when the past settlers get back?As a third man,I'd like to tell what I have seen.

Comment

Thank you for loving this photo story and it is indeed a great honor to be selected as a winner this year!This is still a time like ”warring periods”,in which only the leading role changes.I hope we can all learn from history and join together to make the world a better place.

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