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I Travel The World To Capture Amazing Pictures Of Nature Taking Back Abandoned Places
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I discovered urban exploration at the end of years 2000 through rooftops, subways, and the city unofficial catacombs. At that time, I found another photographic subject: documenting the unseen side of the city. Climbing roofs to see the city from the top, going at night in subway tunnels or spend whole days underground in the catacombs exploring the tens of kilometers of galleries looking for beautiful carved rooms: I found a thrill in that activity, the adrenaline that I have been looking for in everything I do in my life.
Roaming in abandoned places looking for graffiti, I came to realize the intensity of the atmospheres and the beauty of the spectacle of time passaging: rust, decaying and peeling painted wall, broken windows, nature taking back create unbelievable sceneries, of high photogenic. For me, all that appeared as infinite poetry.
Today, five years after, I have visited more than seven hundred abandoned locations in more than thirty countries on four continents.
With time, my interest has concentrated on what appeared to me to be the strongest, the most original element in this vast subject of abandonment: nature taking back. It is poetic, even magic, to see nature retaking what used to be hers, reintegrating through broken windows, cracks on the walls, spaces built by Man and then neglected, until sometimes guzzling them entirely.
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This is very interesting for sure, what seems to be statues in the back were left behind, not nice.
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Woah. This looks like a relatively recently built house (restaurant? hotel?)
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Mr. Wilson, it looks like your problem is a clogged carburetor.
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Heh. My first thought when I saw this picture was "Hmm, this looks like a Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) class 301"... And sure enough, it actually says on her "301,006" and Google pretty much confirmed my hunch that this picture was taken in Istvántelek railway repair shop, Budapest...
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nature knocking at the door and trying to get in. Looks like a great place to shoot a film
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Amazing, the 2 floors above that piece of machinery fell and it is still there like nothing happened!
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Mig 15, and judging by the writing on the side I'm going to guess... Bulgarian?
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Waaait a second... that's the Pripyat amusement park... I like it that's the only picture from Chernobyl in this set instead of more recognisable ones, like the Ferris wheel or the pool.
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This looks like someone's bedroom. Took me a moment to figure out what it was.
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Great pictures, I am curious to know where these are. What place and what country.
Margie, check my facebook or flickr.. I sometimes give information
how did these places become abandoned? great pics though.
each one has a very specific history.. which I don't always know by the way
Would have been nice to know where they were taken... 😕
Check my facebook page, sometimes I put captions, with countries..
Great pictures, I am curious to know where these are. What place and what country.
Margie, check my facebook or flickr.. I sometimes give information
how did these places become abandoned? great pics though.
each one has a very specific history.. which I don't always know by the way
Would have been nice to know where they were taken... 😕
Check my facebook page, sometimes I put captions, with countries..