Abandoned Star Wars Set in Tunisia

A New York based artist and photographer, Rä di Martino, flew to Tunisia to photograph the remains of abandoned Star Wars sets in desert near Algerian border. “This is part of a project that began when I was using Google Maps to look at Chott el Djerid, the great salt desert in Tunisia. Intriguingly, someone had attached a photograph of some crumbling plaster to the online map with the strange caption: “There is no more English Patient.” I discovered that The English Patient had been shot there – and Star Wars.” says the artist.

“Unexpectedly those sets have been left on location, probably because in the middle of nowhere and because no-one from the local authorities complained and therefore after years some of it have now become ruins, almost as some sort strange archeological sites. The particular hot and dry climate has helped mantain intact many parts of the sets, or buried under the sand just sections of it.” [via AmusingPlanet]