Heraklion International Airport Nikos Kazantzakis

Named for the Cretan writer Nikos Kazantzakis, this is the international airport serving Heraklion, on the north coast of Crete. My photographs show the terminal building across an empty asphalt forecourt, a yellow Hertz bus, a white car and a blue-and-white coach drawn up in front of it under a clear blue sky, the shot taken through a window that throws back its own reflections. My video looks from an aircraft window over an empty runway and dry scrub to the sea and a hazy coastal ridge, and from a taxiing aircraft across the airfield, panning right past a row of yellow taxiway signs lettered A, B, C, 09/27, E, F, G and H in bright morning light.

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  Heraklion International Airport Nikos Kazantzakis