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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's unofficial catacombs. At that time, I found another subject for interesting photos: 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 beautifully 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, natural forces taking back to create unbelievable sceneries that were stunningly photogenic. For me, all that urban decay appeared as infinite poetry.
Today, five years after, I have visited more than seven hundred of these beautiful places 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: mother nature taking back its habitat. 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.
Woah. This looks like a relatively recently built house (restaurant? hotel?)
Mr. Wilson, it looks like your problem is a clogged carburetor.
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...
nature knocking at the door and trying to get in. Looks like a great place to shoot a film
If you ignore the outside and to the right of the mirror, this one doesn't look in such a state of disrepair.
Absolutely, if it was not for nature knocking at the window, I would not have posted that one.. too clean and recent ;-)
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If you look at this photo from the other side of a room, it doesn't look abandoned at all.
Amazing, the 2 floors above that piece of machinery fell and it is still there like nothing happened!
Mig 15, and judging by the writing on the side I'm going to guess... Bulgarian?
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.
This looks like someone's bedroom. Took me a moment to figure out what it was.
