Aks: Views from Gadani @ Baithak

Views from Gadani

Thursday, March 31, 2005 | 3 comments

Mithra Birdie

focuses on the two faces of beach life in Southern Balochistan, Pakistan.

Photographs taken in February 2004

The tranquil scene captured at Gadani Beach, Balochistan, is in contrast to the activities taking place a stone's throw away. This deserted stretch of the coastline is used to scrap old ships. These ship breaking yards are fascinating places, gigantic metal structures pulled onto the shore, heavy chains and discarded parts of ancient ships strewn the beach.

Shipbreaking activites at Gadani.

Thursday, March 31, 2005 | permalink | 3 comments

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3 Comments:

Nice pictures remind me of the ship breaking work in Alang in Gujarat, India.....

By Born Too Soon, at April 02, 2005 12:07 AM

The chain pic is really nice. Nice perspective.

By BD, at April 03, 2005 5:19 AM

lovely to see photographs of a beach where my family used to go camping. I was there last in 1969. Lots of oysters. I wonder how the beach has held up environmentally with the ship wrecking so near.

By Anonymous, at October 06, 2006 10:19 PM