crawling on the desert

Photographer

Jidai Matsumoto

Category

Editorial Photography - Travel

Company

Japan

Submission Group

Professional

Year

2023

Country / Region:

Japan

Located in Mauritania, January 2023. This is longest train in the world. This is a cargo train that takes iron ore from mines to the port in 17 hours. on the tattered rails, with 220 cargos moving It looked like a giant imaginary creature crawling on the desert. His tail is still beyond the dune distant . When the warm season, It seems that many pilgrims ride on this creature's back to the holy ground. Instead of trying to capture the whole, I tried to express the experience as something mysterious, projecting the the adventures into unknown worlds that I dreamed of so many times as a child.