Field Note
A ship that unloads itself
The gear stacked along the deck of a self-discharging bulk carrier is there so the vessel can work a berth that has no cranes of its own.
By Rafael Viana · 1 min
HalftoneDispatch
The cranes at Kieldrecht
A row of ship-to-shore gantries stands on the left bank of the Scheldt, above a polder that was farmland within living memory.
- Dispatch
Lightning over the mole
A November storm crossed the harbour at Port-la-Nouvelle while the lighthouse kept working, and a long exposure caught what the eye could not hold still.
- Report
The spiral at Brusio
To lose height without losing grip, the Bernina line turns a full circle in the open air on a stone viaduct.
- Report
Seven hundred and fifty kilovolts
A transformer at the top of the transmission range, standing in grass, with the insulators doing the visible work.
Benoit Brummer / CC BY 4.0
Ports
5 stories · August – September
Analysis
The platform built at home
P-51 was assembled in Brazil from end to end, a decision about industrial policy as much as about oil.
By Dessie Okonkwo · 1 min
Field Note
The lion and the lighthouse
Lindau marks its harbour entrance with a stone lion on one side and a lighthouse on the other, and a scheduled boat passes between them all day.
By Soo-jin Pae · 1 min
Transit
5 stories · July – September
Archive
Kreiensen, 1963
A junction station in Lower Saxony, photographed on a January morning, with the platform furniture of a railway that expected to be used.
By Linnea Holm · 2 min
Photo Essay
Flinders Street, 1927
A city photographed at the hour when its station is doing all the work at once.
By Linnea Holm · 1 min
Field Note
The catamaran at Panormitis
A fast ferry in a bay with one building on it, on a route where speed is the whole product.
By Rafael Viana · 1 min
Dispatch
One island, two directions
Clapham Common has a single narrow platform with trains on both sides of it, an arrangement the Underground stopped building for good reason.
By Soo-jin Pae · 1 min
Power
5 stories · July – September
Dispatch
The line past Doel
A freight railway runs under a cooling tower at twilight, two pieces of infrastructure sharing a horizon and nothing else.
By Linnea Holm · 1 min
Field Note
The water that cools it
A thermal power station and the reservoir it was built for, photographed as one object because that is what they are.
By Mira Halvorsen · 1 min
Report
The turbine hall at Kachlet
A run-of-river plant on the Danube keeps its machinery in a long low building that looks more like a warehouse than a power station.
By Rafael Viana · 1 min
Photo Essay
The windmill and the tower
Two ways of taking power from a landscape, four centuries apart, standing within sight of each other on the same flat ground.
By Soo-jin Pae · 1 min
Land
4 stories · June – August
Archive
Stratford, 1935
A wall of dust approaches a farmhouse on the Texas panhandle, and the photograph became one of the images that fixed a decade.
By Dessie Okonkwo · 1 min
Field Note
The roots of a coast
Seen from orbit, the estuaries of Guinea-Bissau branch like a root system, because the process that made them is the same one.
By Mira Halvorsen · 1 min
Photo Essay
The ridge at Khongoryn Els
A dune field in the Gobi, where the only straight line in the landscape is the one the wind makes.
By Soo-jin Pae · 1 min
Field Note
Bois Raquet in December
A planted conifer stand in the High Fens, photographed in the week of the year when it admits the most light.
By Linnea Holm · 1 min