TerraN_EmpirE
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Miragedriver
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Dark tourism across the world.
Really, and people pay to see this. They must be first world tourists and not from the 3rd world.....
Four years before he set out to photograph places of death and destruction that have since become tourist attractions Ambroise Tézenas found himself in the aftermath of a human catastrophe. The French photographer was in Sri Lanka shortly after the 2004 tsunami struck off the coast of Indonesia, killing an estimated 226,000 people. “The tears of the survivors are still etched in my memory,” he writes in the introduction to his latest book, . “The idea that this place could become a ‘photo opportunity’ put me ill at ease.”
But in 2008 Tézenas discovered his fears had been realised. A train linking Colombo to Galle had been swept away by a tsunami and now lay in the jungle."People would visit the site to pay their respects or take pictures," says Tézenas. Moved by what he’d read, and intrigued by what motivates humans to visit disaster zones, Tézenas embarked on a six-year project that would take him to more than a dozen sites of dark tourism across the world.
The above image shows the inside of an interrogation room in Karostas Cietums prison in Latvia thought to be the only military prison in Europe open to tourists. In operation from 1900 to 1997, the prison was a place where revolutionaries, military deserters, and rebels were incarcerated. The official text produced by the prison, which Tézenas reproduces verbatim in his book, explains how visitors are invited to take part in an interactive show “to have the opportunity to live the part of the prisoner and learn about the most shocking facts from the history of the prison.”
Interview by Gemma Padley
Picture: Ambroise Tézenas
Tézenas travelled from Cambodia to Rwanda, Lebanon, Lithuania, the United States, and Ukraine, where he visited sites linked to mass killings, assassinations and other tragedies, which have been specially developed for tourism. Here is an image he took during a visit to Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of one of the worst environmental disasters in modern times, which is now open to tourists. Struck by the incongruity of the presence of tourists and the horror that occurred, Tézenas describes how Americans and Swedes wander around the deserted town of Prypyat with cameras slung over their shoulders, “perhaps to reassure themselves… how much better their own situation is,” he writes.
Above: Trip to Chernobyl: examination of the abandoned apartment blocks, schools, hotels, kindergartens
Picture: Ambroise Tézenas
In Rwanda, Tézenas joined a genocide memorial tour, which takes visitors through the capital city of Kigali, and on a trek through the Volcanoes National Park Rwanda. The tour also stops at a number of memorial sites along the way, including the Murambi Genocide Memorial Centre, pictured here. Tézenas explains that his aim with the project was not to find and document unknown examples of dark tourism, but rather to photograph in some of these places to try to understand why humans feel compelled to visit historic sites of death and destruction. “I’m not saying this is a new phenomenon because it has been going on for hundreds of years since the public executions in France and the Gladiatorial contests in Rome,” he says. “My aim was to relay this [phenomenon] to our modern world and to try to understand why [people visit these places].”
Above: Rwanda Genocide Memorial Tour: Murambi genocide memorial site
Picture: Ambroise Tézenas
Visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland, which safeguards and preserves the former Nazi concentration camp, can buy soft drinks, cakes, and other snacks during their visit, as Tézenas’s image shows. The museum was founded on site in 1947 by the Polish government. “My aim was not to make beautiful images out of despair and death,” says Tézenas. “It was to point out a few examples [of dark tourism]… It was important to me not to have a catalogue of terrible places without at least trying to open a discussion around them.”
Above: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oswiecim (KL Auschwitz I). Parking
Picture: Ambroise Tézenas
On 10 June 1944, the Nazis massacred 642 residents in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, close to Limoges in France. Following the unexplained, barbaric attack on French civilians – the worst of its kind on French soil in living memory – the village became a ghost town. In November 1944 the French government ordered the ruins to be officially classified and preserved, where they remain to this day – a national memorial and symbol of French persecution by the Nazis.
Above: The martyr village of Oradour-sur-Glane, Lanot butcher’s shop
Picture: Ambroise Tézenas
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Really, and people pay to see this. They must be first world tourists and not from the 3rd world.....
Four years before he set out to photograph places of death and destruction that have since become tourist attractions Ambroise Tézenas found himself in the aftermath of a human catastrophe. The French photographer was in Sri Lanka shortly after the 2004 tsunami struck off the coast of Indonesia, killing an estimated 226,000 people. “The tears of the survivors are still etched in my memory,” he writes in the introduction to his latest book, . “The idea that this place could become a ‘photo opportunity’ put me ill at ease.”
But in 2008 Tézenas discovered his fears had been realised. A train linking Colombo to Galle had been swept away by a tsunami and now lay in the jungle."People would visit the site to pay their respects or take pictures," says Tézenas. Moved by what he’d read, and intrigued by what motivates humans to visit disaster zones, Tézenas embarked on a six-year project that would take him to more than a dozen sites of dark tourism across the world.
The above image shows the inside of an interrogation room in Karostas Cietums prison in Latvia thought to be the only military prison in Europe open to tourists. In operation from 1900 to 1997, the prison was a place where revolutionaries, military deserters, and rebels were incarcerated. The official text produced by the prison, which Tézenas reproduces verbatim in his book, explains how visitors are invited to take part in an interactive show “to have the opportunity to live the part of the prisoner and learn about the most shocking facts from the history of the prison.”
Interview by Gemma Padley
Picture: Ambroise Tézenas
Tézenas travelled from Cambodia to Rwanda, Lebanon, Lithuania, the United States, and Ukraine, where he visited sites linked to mass killings, assassinations and other tragedies, which have been specially developed for tourism. Here is an image he took during a visit to Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of one of the worst environmental disasters in modern times, which is now open to tourists. Struck by the incongruity of the presence of tourists and the horror that occurred, Tézenas describes how Americans and Swedes wander around the deserted town of Prypyat with cameras slung over their shoulders, “perhaps to reassure themselves… how much better their own situation is,” he writes.
Above: Trip to Chernobyl: examination of the abandoned apartment blocks, schools, hotels, kindergartens
Picture: Ambroise Tézenas
In Rwanda, Tézenas joined a genocide memorial tour, which takes visitors through the capital city of Kigali, and on a trek through the Volcanoes National Park Rwanda. The tour also stops at a number of memorial sites along the way, including the Murambi Genocide Memorial Centre, pictured here. Tézenas explains that his aim with the project was not to find and document unknown examples of dark tourism, but rather to photograph in some of these places to try to understand why humans feel compelled to visit historic sites of death and destruction. “I’m not saying this is a new phenomenon because it has been going on for hundreds of years since the public executions in France and the Gladiatorial contests in Rome,” he says. “My aim was to relay this [phenomenon] to our modern world and to try to understand why [people visit these places].”
Above: Rwanda Genocide Memorial Tour: Murambi genocide memorial site
Picture: Ambroise Tézenas
Visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland, which safeguards and preserves the former Nazi concentration camp, can buy soft drinks, cakes, and other snacks during their visit, as Tézenas’s image shows. The museum was founded on site in 1947 by the Polish government. “My aim was not to make beautiful images out of despair and death,” says Tézenas. “It was to point out a few examples [of dark tourism]… It was important to me not to have a catalogue of terrible places without at least trying to open a discussion around them.”
Above: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oswiecim (KL Auschwitz I). Parking
Picture: Ambroise Tézenas
On 10 June 1944, the Nazis massacred 642 residents in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, close to Limoges in France. Following the unexplained, barbaric attack on French civilians – the worst of its kind on French soil in living memory – the village became a ghost town. In November 1944 the French government ordered the ruins to be officially classified and preserved, where they remain to this day – a national memorial and symbol of French persecution by the Nazis.
Above: The martyr village of Oradour-sur-Glane, Lanot butcher’s shop
Picture: Ambroise Tézenas
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Miragedriver
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12 Massive Animals You Won’t Believe Actually Exist. #11 Is Terrifying — NEVER Swimming Again!
America loves everything that’s big. Whether it be our trucks, our land, our drinks, or our burgers, there’s one slogan that we like to live by: Bigger is better.
And it’s no different when it comes to the animal world. Whether it be a 300-pound snake, a 2-pound goldfish, or a pig that weighs as much as a truck, we’re impressed by the biggest and best!
Except for the inception of the incredible that has swept the nation, we, as Americans, love to be #1, and love to have the biggest, newest, shiniest toys!
Please check out the biggest animals in the list below. Most of them have been confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the absolute biggest of the big among their species, and we’ve just got to say they’re all pretty impressive beasts.
What’s the biggest animal you’ve ever seen? Let us know, and please SHARE this list of the biggest animals out there!
1. At 7'4" tall when standing on his hind legs, and 3'8" when on all fours, Zeus holds the record for tallest dog ever.
2. Trouble, the world's largest domestic cat, was 19" tall from shoulder to paw.
3. 13-year-old Blossom is the world's tallest cow, standing at 6'4".
4. Big Jake, the world's tallest horse, weighs about 2,600 pounds and is an incredible 6'11" tall! That's 20 hands!
5. It took over 100 people to finally capture this 20'3" monster.
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America loves everything that’s big. Whether it be our trucks, our land, our drinks, or our burgers, there’s one slogan that we like to live by: Bigger is better.
And it’s no different when it comes to the animal world. Whether it be a 300-pound snake, a 2-pound goldfish, or a pig that weighs as much as a truck, we’re impressed by the biggest and best!
Except for the inception of the incredible that has swept the nation, we, as Americans, love to be #1, and love to have the biggest, newest, shiniest toys!
Please check out the biggest animals in the list below. Most of them have been confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the absolute biggest of the big among their species, and we’ve just got to say they’re all pretty impressive beasts.
What’s the biggest animal you’ve ever seen? Let us know, and please SHARE this list of the biggest animals out there!
1. At 7'4" tall when standing on his hind legs, and 3'8" when on all fours, Zeus holds the record for tallest dog ever.
2. Trouble, the world's largest domestic cat, was 19" tall from shoulder to paw.
3. 13-year-old Blossom is the world's tallest cow, standing at 6'4".
4. Big Jake, the world's tallest horse, weighs about 2,600 pounds and is an incredible 6'11" tall! That's 20 hands!
5. It took over 100 people to finally capture this 20'3" monster.
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Miragedriver
Brigadier
6. Originally bought for 99 cents, this goldfish lived over 15 years and grew to be 15 inches long and weighed in at 2 pounds!
7. 9-year-old Romulus holds the honor of being the world's tallest living donkey. At 5'8" he's over 17 hands!
8. The largest living cat is the aptly named Hercules. An adult male Liger, he stands 4'1" at the shoulder and weighs 922 pounds!
9. Medusa, the world's longest snake, lives in Missouri and is 25'2" long!
10. This Chinese pig weighed 1,984 pounds before it died. That's a lot of bacon!
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Miragedriver
Brigadier
11. The world's biggest catfish weighed in at an incredible 280 pounds. That thing could eat you!
Sorry but I cannot personally believe that some of these are not photo shopped. Especially ten and eleven
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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
you might ask What is a Liger? It's A lion and Tiger Cross breed.
broadsword
Brigadier
It's name was Lolong. After its capture, I looked it up the internet every day. Sadly, it passed before I had a chance to visit.
5. It took over 100 people to finally capture this 20'3" monster.
When I see the size of this liger, I don't think it is possible for a wild Siberian tiger to grow to 900-1000 pounds as popularly rumored but never proven.
8. The largest living cat is the aptly named Hercules. An adult male Liger, he stands 4'1" at the shoulder and weighs 922 pounds!
10. This Chinese pig weighed 1,984 pounds before it died. That's a lot of bacon!
I don't think it is psed. It looks proportional to the weight of a large bull, even when taken this close distance. But I agree the catfish looks way to big for over 200-300 lbs.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Pigs can definitely grow that big. Just go to a state fair in the US and those are some huge pigs.
Depending on who's the dad and who's the mom the offspring can also be called a Tigon. Both types of offspring are infertile themselves, like mules.
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