Since 2007, photographer Jade Doskow travels around the world looking for the remnants of past World Fairs. Specialized in architecture and landscapes, the artist photographed desolated places in which nature reclaimed its rights and where the traces of a major international event are sometimes invisible. Her pictures, collected intohttps://black-dog-publishing.myshopify.com/products/lost-utopias a book entitled Lost Utopias, offer us a beautiful and poetic reflexion on the passing of time and the tension between the ephemeral and the permanent.
Montreal 1967 World’s Fair, “Man and His World,” Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome With Solar Experimental House
2012
Brussels 1958 World’s Fair, “A World View: A New Humanism,” Atomium at Night
2008
Montreal 1967 World’s Fair, “Man and His World,” Yves Trudeau’s Le Phare du Cosmos / Blue Robot
2015
Knoxville 1982 World’s Fair, “Energy Turns the World,” Sunsphere
2009
Montreal 1967 World’s Fair, “Man and His World,” Habitat ’6, Night View
2012
St. Louis 1904 World’s Fair, “Louisiana Purchase Exposition,” Flight Cage
2013
New Orleans 1884 World’s Fair, “World Cotton Centennial,” Audubon Park
2008
Vancouver 1986 World’s Fair, “World Exposition on Transportation and Communication,” McBarge
2014
New York 1964 World’s Fair, “Peace Through Understanding,” New York State Pavilion, Winter View
2014
New York 1964 World’s Fair, “Peace Through Understanding,” Unisphere
2009
All images ©Jade Doskow