Sand and Iron by Albert Słowiński - Academy of Art in Szczecin
The longest train across the Sahara dates back to the 1960s, when rich deposits of iron ore were discovered in northern Mauritania. A railway was built to transport raw material from the mine in Zouérat to the port of Nouadhibou. Today, people travelling this route go about 704 kilometres through one of the world’s most inhospitable landscapes. With one passenger car, which is not affordable to all, many travel for twenty hours on mounds of iron ore, across the three kilometres of train carriages.
