Oasis Hotel
Oasis Hotel is not a place as much as it is not a story. It is the mood on a road through one of the most inhospitable deserts in the world.
During my reportage I documented the life along the cross-desert highway, a road that was built in China in the mid 1990s to help in the extraction of oil underneath the sands. It stretches for more than 500km from north to south across the Taklamakan desert, the world's second largest desert, after Africa's Sahara. The prospering oil business leaves its deep marks on the daily life of the local population, causing various problems: desolation, prostitution and alcoholism are just the obvious evils.
The drought exists in this desert as it does in the lives of its people.
Xinjiang, China, 2008
©2010 by Nicolò Degiorgis
