Silent Whaling Point
South Georgia is a subantarctic island in the South Atlantic, located east of the southern tip of South America. In the early twentieth century, it became one of the world’s major centers of industrial whaling. Every year, thousands of whales were processed here. Sheltered bays were transformed into production hubs, and decades of intensive exploitation left behind stations, infrastructure, and nearly empty waters.
Today, the industry has vanished. Along the coastline, abandoned whaling stations, storage tanks, and remnants of past activity still stand. The wildlife, however, never disappeared — it was the human presence that, for decades, dictated the conditions of its existence.
This project tells the story of a place in transition, where traces of industrial history coexist with a recovering ecosystem, and where the landscape is gradually freeing itself from its industrial past.
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Awards:
South Georgia, October–November 2025
