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Lagos Lagoon, NIGERIA

Wow! Getting present to reality... & the industrialization we take as an everyday phenomenon... these sails are made with rice sacks, propelled by the wind to move sand pulled by hand for construction!

#beauty #practicality not sure about #modern

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"Boats powered by wind and propelled with sails made of rice sacks transport sand pulled by hand from the Lagos Lagoon.

Sand miners dive 13 to 16 feet to the bottom of the lagoon and fill the boats one bucket at a time. The sand is being used to construct the new Lagos. Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria.

Read the blog about my time with Lagos' sand diggers on Proof, National Geographic’s online photography journal: http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/09/life-in-lagos-building-the-city-one-bucket-at-a-time/#comment-561375 the photos come from a story on Lagos now in the January 2015 edition of National Geographic Magazine.

Read the story online written by @robertdraper: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/lagos/draper-text  "

 Photo by @Hammond_Robin

#Repost from @natgeo

 

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