parkes-and-wrecks: Valdez, Alaska, 1999. The oil from the Exxon Valdez is sold in small bottles in V

parkes-and-wrecks:

Valdez, Alaska, 1999.

The oil from the Exxon Valdez is sold in small bottles in Valdez gift shops. This small, flat and unassuming town was one of our stops in my cruise ship photographer days. I can’t say what it’s like to live there-all the white people in Alaska seems to have come there to get away from something-but as an outsider I was captivated by its austere aesthetic backdropped by snow capped mountains and the sea otters which hopped out of the way of the ship as it steers around the mast of Exxon, still sticking out of the water.

*Fun fact: as the cruise ships only had colour processors at the time, these were shot on Kodak C400 which used colour film dyes to emulate a sort of sepia-tone look in colour prints.