![]() I took these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were. The soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry. The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. No-one knows for certain exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake. I unexpectedly found the creatures - all manner of birds and bats - washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. If you accidentally touch the water in the lake, your eyes or skin will be damaged. For thousands of years, any animal that stumbles into the ‘lake of death’ Natron, their carcass is petrified in a short time. "The notion of portraits of dead animals in the place where they once lived is what also drew me to photographing the creatures in the Calcified series: Words by Khoi Nguyen Lake Natron is one of the famous lakes with extremely mysterious and magical beauty by its bright red color. The animals were then arranged in their poses. It’s 35 miles long from north to south, and 14. In northern Tanzania, just next to Kenya, lies the beautiful, and notorious Lake Natron. Its beauty comes with a price, though: most creatures that drink from the lake will end up dead. Animals that find themselves submerged in the water die and become calcified. With its bright red and orange colors, Lake Natron is definitely one of Tanzania’s most spectacular sights. The water in Lake Natron isn't too friendly to life, as the alkalinity is between pH 9 and pH 10.6 and water temperatures can reach 60 degrees celsius. ![]()
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