Lüderitz

The port town of Lüderitz on the southern Namibian coast is a striking anachronism — German colonial Jugendstil and Wilhelmine architecture lines its harbour-side streets, preserved almost intact against a backdrop of desert dunes that meet the cold Atlantic. Kolmanskop, a ghost town 10 kilometres inland, was a diamond-mining settlement abandoned in the 1950s and now slowly engulfed by the encroaching dunes. The interiors of the sand-filled houses are among the most surreal photography subjects in Africa.