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Exploring how the spirit of an idea impacts a place is what fascinates me most about taking photographies. Spirits of ideas can impact places long after the idea has passed, and one can sense, smell, see those spirits when on site. Learning about a place from other sources and researching its history makes them more visible on each return visit. Eventually, a photographic account can emerge, preserving them. In this sense, I can nothing but love Kai-Olaf Hesses project Topography of the Titanic:

In October 2002, German photographer Kai-Olaf Hesse initiated Topography of Titanic; an extensive photographic survey of Queens Island sites related to the making of the Titanic; the historic marks, remaining buildings, and suggestive blanks left by rapid demolition and transformation.

Kai-Olaf Hesse: Topography of the Titanic →