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Aral Sea: Memory Erased

The photographer Grégoire Eloy spent several years in the Aral Sea region on the border between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Ressac [The Undertow] is a sensorial record of the environmental tragedy, on the verge of illusion and oblivion.

A child walks across a desert. Watched over by his great uncle, the boy runs his hand over the rusty hull of a boat stranded in the sand and crumbling with time. At the end of the journey, an expanse of blue. The old man hadn’t been here in thirty y...

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