Haunting Aerial Photographs of Drowned Villages in Canada
Photographer Louis Helbig is archiving aerial views of Canadian villages drowned by the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway on his website Sunken Villages . The photos are haunting and gorgeous, almost emerald-like, but often difficult to read. Outlines of houses and roads barely emerge from the silt like scenes from a dream by J.G. Ballard , resembling flooded stage sets in the water that, in some photos, are lazily criss-crossed by boats. The shot seen above, featuring a " barn with octagonal silo ," or the photo simply described as two buildings in Riverside Heights —an overly optimistic name for a town that now finds itself underwater—exemplify the dreamlike nature of the scenes. Some of the lost architectural features of the region are now SCUBA-diving attractions , Helbig explains. S EXPAND " Two Buildings Riverside Heights " by Louis Helbig. Helbig relays the extraordinary history of these villages on his site, including a ...