ABSTRACT
Visiting Dubai for the first time in 2007, Zirwes was amazed by the extreme contrasts the city displays: very rich snobbish people here, and simple and friendly workers there; the nearly unimaginable heat that he was unable to bear, outside, and risking catching a cold while skiing inside Emirates Mall. Even though he had organized everything for 2008, including permissions, his plans did not work out. Instead of taking a view from above, he began to shoot these huge construction sites from the ground, where up to 2,000 workers in one shift work day and night to realize these kinds of imaginations. Whereas Zirwes calls one group of his uvre fields, which contains such very graphical pictures, structures and surfaces, the other group of photographs shows zones' referring to specific topics. Arguably, these building and compounds are the semiotic reference to the semantics of luxury and are part of the habitus economicus.
