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I Took Photos Of Nature Taking Back Abandoned Places All Over The World (30 Pics)
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.
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Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
Such a shame to see this nice old conservatory ruined and abandoned.
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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Diane Glascott 7 years ago
The statue is of Artemis, the Greek Goddess of the Wilderness, think she'd like this.
Sue Lynn Chan 4 years ago
If it was, do you think we can find a temple nearby?
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Teresa Anthony 7 years ago
The background looks beautiful...is it just me who thinks that? I really would like to go to this place and explore
Jonk 7 years ago
yes, I had the luck to be there on a sunny and frozen morning...
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Indeed, soon we won't see him anymore... total camouflage
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sharron lynn parsons 7 years ago
This is very interesting for sure, what seems to be statues in the back were left behind, not nice.
Jonk 7 years ago
Someone is taking of this place.. It will certainly get renovated one day. There is no more trees inside today
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sharron lynn parsons 4 years ago
My second view, I still feel the great interest, however, continue to feel bad, the beautiful statues are left, too bad nobody, could have found them a home, I would put them in my home, or yard, there is a church, in my home town, they changed the alter, the statues are gone, a sad bare alter !!!
Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
Sad photo of a nice chapel- Jesus with Joseph and Mary flanking him.
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Agnes Jekyll 7 years ago
Woah. This looks like a relatively recently built house (restaurant? hotel?)
Jonk 7 years ago
yes, it has been built in the 70s and has been abandoned in the mid-2000.. That part of the school was like the central atrium, with a bar indeed.. :-)
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Rebekah Haynes 7 years ago
I want to silently order a drink and then the Doctor will come up from behind and say "run"
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Terror from Beyond Space 7 years ago
Mr. Wilson, it looks like your problem is a clogged carburetor.
Jonk 7 years ago
Among many other problems though ;-)) this one will NOT be repaired! ;-)
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Jonk 7 years ago
It fascinates me too, that's why I devote so much time to that ;-)
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Jonk 7 years ago
Cool! :-) Me too, there were 4 silos like that next to each others with 4 different kinds of vegetation inside..
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Jonk 7 years ago
One of my favorites!! Love that stairs one the right... ;-)
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Agnes Jekyll 7 years ago
nature knocking at the door and trying to get in. Looks like a great place to shoot a film
Becky Reus 7 years ago
If you ignore the outside and to the right of the mirror, this one doesn't look in such a state of disrepair.
Jonk 7 years ago
Absolutely, if it was not for nature knocking at the window, I would not have posted that one.. too clean and recent ;-)
Load More Replies... Sue Lynn Chan 4 years ago
Don't you ever felt like dancing in these hall alone, with music in the background as you dance gracefully without being fear or someone judging your talent?
Zachary Stephen 7 years ago
If you look at this photo from the other side of a room, it doesn't look abandoned at all.
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Alexandru Bucur 7 years ago
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...
Jonk 7 years ago
It did absolutely, this warehouse was huge and there were many trains like this one inside
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BunnyBlubber 7 years ago
One day, they left that train and never came back. I wonder if they knew it would become like this today
Jonk 7 years ago
I don't know if they knew, but anyway now they know.. This warehouse is part of a live site... people work like 50 meters away
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Ryan Bitzer 4 years ago
Plants growing in a sink. Just go ahead and let that sink in for a moment.
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Jonk 7 years ago
Outch.. i don't know but not a good idea anymore.. all kinds of insects on it now...
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Bryan Richhart 7 years ago
Amazing, the 2 floors above that piece of machinery fell and it is still there like nothing happened!
Katinka Min 4 years ago
They might have taken out the beams, though, and used it for another building. Or where they lying under all that greenery, somewhere?
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Debbie Barnes 4 years ago
Whenever I see buildings like this, I just look at the potential of turning them into homes. The building looks structurally sound, so it's a shame it's just been abandoned.
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Jonk 7 years ago
It was a ballroom, and I am standing on the scene to shoot this one
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Jonk 7 years ago
I think I was made to receive some kind of bill board to post on it
Load More Replies... Agnes Jekyll 7 years ago
things to the right look like enormous (Donald) ducks. What are they?
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Alexandru Bucur 7 years ago
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.
Jonk 7 years ago
It is that places indeed. If you look in detail, you can see the ferris wheel in the background
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Alexandru Bucur 7 years ago
Mig 15, and judging by the writing on the side I'm going to guess... Bulgarian?
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JustABobcat 7 years ago
This looks like someone's bedroom. Took me a moment to figure out what it was.
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Margie S. 7 years ago
Great pictures, I am curious to know where these are. What place and what country.
Jonk (Post author) 7 years ago
Margie, check my facebook or flickr.. I sometimes give information
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Jonk (Post author) 7 years ago
Check my facebook page, sometimes I put captions, with countries..
Load More Replies... Jonk (Post author) 7 years ago
each one has a very specific history.. which I don't always know by the way
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Shruti Naik 7 years ago
rusty and old sure! but nature taking it back makes these places look so beautiful!
Ashley Say Wha?!? 7 years ago
What an incredible collection! Thanks for sharing it with us! I loved it!!!
Winter's Dream 7 years ago
These are all hauntingly beautiful. I loved every one of them. Can we look forward to a coffee table book soon?
Jonk (Post author) 7 years ago
Actually yes ;-) Check my facebook page or instagram ;-)
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Margie S. 7 years ago
Great pictures, I am curious to know where these are. What place and what country.
Jonk (Post author) 7 years ago
Margie, check my facebook or flickr.. I sometimes give information
Load More Replies... Jonk (Post author) 7 years ago
Check my facebook page, sometimes I put captions, with countries..
Load More Replies... Jonk (Post author) 7 years ago
each one has a very specific history.. which I don't always know by the way
Load More Replies... Shruti Naik 7 years ago
rusty and old sure! but nature taking it back makes these places look so beautiful!
Ashley Say Wha?!? 7 years ago
What an incredible collection! Thanks for sharing it with us! I loved it!!!
Winter's Dream 7 years ago
These are all hauntingly beautiful. I loved every one of them. Can we look forward to a coffee table book soon?
Jonk (Post author) 7 years ago
Actually yes ;-) Check my facebook page or instagram ;-)
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