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Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates Fuels the Shopping Cult

If consumerism is the predominant modern day religion, then this week’s picture shows one our most monumental cathedrals – Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates. According...

Running in Dubai: Sadomasochism for the Rich?

Earlier this year I got up before dawn one morning to photograph the Dubai marathon and 10k race. It was a foggy morning which added...

Landfill: Where Dubai’s Building Rubble Piles Up

My last photo blog on Green Prophet featured one of the many sites in the Hajar Mountains from which construction aggregate is extracted. This time...

Crushers Reduce Emirate Mountaintops to Rubble in the Name of “Progress”

Green Prophet’s resident photographer documents “cut” Hajar Mountains in the United Arab Emirates. Huge swaths of the Hajar Mountains in the UAE’s northern emirates appear...

Fake Wind Towers “Heat” Homes in Abu Dhabi

On a man-made Abu Dhabi island, fake wind towers heat homes instead of cooling them. I recently photographed a new housing development on Yas Island,...

Car Consumption: 8,000 Boring White Chevrolets in Dubai

This is a Chevrolet logistics depot in the Jebel Ali Freezone in Dubai. A rough estimate from studying the site on google earth puts the...

Crap – a Giant Field of Human Excrement Outside of Dubai

Even though, perversely for a landscape photographer, I tend to seek out uglier-than-average places, this possibly wins the prize for one of the least glamorous...

Consumption in Dubai – Breathtaking Photos of Our Environmental Impact

Richard Allenby-Pratt’s popular Abandoned photo series still haunts us. Currently based in Dubai, the professional photographer received numerous accolades for extraordinary compositions that depict wild...
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