Nouadhibou - a port city on the west coast of Africa, the bank which represents the present and the world's largest graveyard of ships, which knows, apparently not too many people. Mexican photographer Ian Smith , almost a hero, in 2008 was forced to overcome many obstacles to capture the beauty of this truly sad, so carefully concealed by the Government of Mauritania because of their own machinations.


Here, "released in circulation, but the insured vehicles, illegally trafficked and economically profitable shipping companies in the scrap from all over the world. According to Yang, he was stopped at the border, slept in a minefield and was accused of espionage before managed to get Nouadhibou. Nobody believed that the photographer came to just shoot the decaying ships. Despite these images as clear evidence of blatant corruption of power, Yang argues that is not intended documentary photography and his work just wanted to show the forgotten beauty.