Theres a feeling of Jurassic Park, in the fact that its closed off. You can go in the winter and its this tropical world, says Maciek Pozoga, the Paris-based photographer who traveled to Brandenburg, Germany to capture the Tropical Islands Resort, an all-season theme park about 35 miles from Berlin that carries the nearly ominous boast of the worlds largest indoor beach.

Contained within an old zeppelin hangar in the former Brand-Briesen Airfieldin Brandenburgs Dahme-Spreewald district, the resort, which opened in 2004, has a 6,000-visitor capacity, a tropical sea, a lagoon, the highest waterslide in the country, and a rainforest featuring 50,000 plants and various wildlife, all of which are enclosed within a 70,000-square-meter dome. Windows let the light pour in. Its quite photogenic, says Pozoga, who shot the photographs in this portfolio on assignment for Vogue. The light was good, but I tried to keep something mysterious about it. He endeavored to keep his work surreptitious. As in other regions that were formerly under the control of the Soviet Union (once, in Belarus, a man took his camera from him, asking, What are you doing? Are you a spy?), Pogozawhose own background is Polishfound plenty of suspicion among his would-be subjects in Brandenburg. But for the photographer, it was less about showing intimate details of the overpriced bottled water or the tourists carving out space on imported sand than something fantastical.

I didnt want it to be social, or too journalistic, said Pozoga. Its kind of the point of view of a child who would go there. I didnt want to be harsh on the people . . . The feeling I had was of a beach resort on another planet, an Elysium. Thats what I was trying to bring in.

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