In 1908 a diamond was found in the Namibian desert, and a town rose from the sand almost overnight. By the 1950s it was empty. The desert has been moving in ever since, filling the ballrooms and hospital wards and half-buried doorways of Kolmanskop with drifts of gold.

You have never seen this ghost town like this. These 47 photographs were captured with a full spectrum modified camera and an Iridium filter, which blends the infrared spectrum with narrow bands of visible light to paint the sand-swallowed rooms in colors the eye cannot see. Then each image was reshaped into an otherworldly place: doors that open onto nothing, hallways flooded with sand, a lone window facing the horizon.
Now step inside. The doors here talk. A seductress changes her face when no one is looking. A woman walks through time, and a date carved in a window has not happened yet. In the halls of an abandoned hospital, ghosts trade riddles, a machine reads your mind, and an old voice in the sand asks a question no one can answer: What did you carry out of here?

The official history says the diamonds ran out. This is the untold story of what really happened.

It begins with a motorcycle, a rogue with nothing to lose, and a handful of glowing crystals that were never diamonds at all. It ends in a place the history books never went. Turn the page, walk through the door, and find out who, or what, is still waiting inside.

Fine art. Science fiction. Desire. A town that never quite died.