11/12/2020
" I live in a dark world, where no light shines through... "
Abandoned limestone quarry - The Netherlands, 2010.
One of 'the lost archives'. Due to an accident with the hard disk containing all my early days work up to July 2011, I lost almost every shot of a 6 year period. This one is one of the few remaining shots of that era. A 5 hour subterranean exploration with only flashlights and gas lanterns, through centuries of limestone mining.
All of the delvers and visitors and residents of these caves, carved their names and dates into the soft limestone. You can find writings dating back to the 14th and 15th century back there. Nowadays a lot of these caves have been destroyed by the ever expanding, active limestone quarry of the ENCI corporation. Sad but true...