Mining cottage dead end, Lille, August 2008. "Corons" stand for mining cottages, typical working-class dwellings at the time of the industrial revolution (around 1850's). With the development of coal and steel industries, the corons constituted huge districts of one-family dwellings. Those tiny working houses were most of the time the property of the industrial companies who employed the workmen, the cottages were thus located against the factories or near the working place...
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Camera: NIKON D200 Focal Length: 26 mm Aperture: f 5.6 Exposure: 1/125 sec ISO: 100 Flash: Not Fired |
