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The street that time forgot
Photographs of Dubai on August 7, 2011
When people think of Dubai, the first things that usually come to mind are the tallest, the largest or even the smallest. Yet nestled between the superlatives and the pre-fabricated wind towers that remind the city of its humble beginnings, is a street that time forgot.
The cabbage-patched street runs right through the heart of Jumeira 1 and is lined with villas that were once the homes of Dubai’s middle-class families. They now lie abandoned, silently awaiting their rebirth as something more ostentatious. Perhaps another shopping mall.
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The other Burj Khalifa
Photographs of Dubai on May 6, 2011
You may have heard of the 828 meter tall Burj Khalifa that stands in Downtown Dubai, but what you probably haven’t heard of is a freshly veneered jaliboot that goes by the same name just a few kilometers due west. I happened to be strolling through Dubai’s Jumeirah beach when I came across this magnificent craft’s sails being unfurled for the first time.
It took a team of five men a whole ten minutes to untie and raise the main sail, but the captain – a young Emirati man – was visibly ecstatic when it held its first breath of the Persian Gulf. He wiped his brow and waved a proud victory sign, before the five men continued on to the second sail.
I’m sure there are several other Burj Khalifas in the country by now. Have you come across one?
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Wind tower at sunset
Photographs of Dubai on August 6, 2010
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The photographer’s shadow
Photographs of Dubai on August 6, 2010
