American Flowers The Inuits in the region call them “American Flowers,” but in reality they’re old, rusted, leaking fuel…
American Flowers
The Inuits in the region call them “American Flowers,” but in reality they’re old, rusted, leaking fuel containers; ten thousand of them scattered across the otherwise-pristine Greenland landscape on what used to be an Air Force base during World War II.
The base—its leaking and rusted barrels, dilapidated cars, and crumbling asbestos-laden buildings—is the subject of photographer Ken Bower’s project American Flowers. A documentary photography project that seeks to shed some light on the wreckage left behind and encourage the US Government to go back and clean up the base, which was abandoned in 1947.
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