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The World Without Us: I Captured Abandoned Places That Look Like Mankind Has Suddenly Disappeared (25 Pics)
After a year full of explorations and photography, I wanted to share with you some previews of the pictures you will be able to find in my new book "Green Urbex 2". It will include the best photographs I took in the last ten years in places where abandoned places are reclaimed by nature. I have always been amazed by how Mother Nature has a way of making herself known even in the most surprising of places despite our efforts. Nature doesn't need much space to thrive: give it an inch, and it will grow a mile!
What would happen if mankind suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth? Imagining the answer has fascinated people since the dawn of time and the answers vary as our society changes and evolves.
As we are facing many challenges today (pandemic, deforestation, pollution, global warming, armed conflicts), those images remind us as a memento mori of what our world could look like tomorrow...
In this series of photographs, I invite you to travel with me through this post-apocalyptic world of your imagination!
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Quarkbeast 3 years ago
That stained glass is beautiful - the building would make a wonderful, well, anything!
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Midoribird Aoi 3 years ago
What would make a family walk away from a perfectly good bedroom suite like this? Was this in Pripiyat?
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Multa Nocte 3 years ago
A pan on the stove, a full bottle of alcohol on the mantle, and condiments on the shelves. It's like they just got up and walked away one day.
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Midoribird Aoi 3 years ago
Holy c**p I hope the photographer wore a hazmat suit! The mold could kill!
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UnimportantDog/Imp (she/her) 3 years ago
much cleaner than the others. this one is eerie, though
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Mary Sommers 3 years ago
It's sad to see all the abandonment. Some places look like they could be cleaned up......
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PenguinQueen 3 years ago
❤️ The architecture and paintings of the past for interiors will never be the same, we make less and less of it for future generations to enjoy... Whilst also not preserving as much as we could because governments are busy investing in wars & their own bank accounts 😔 same with our environment.. I wish we could/would do more to protect these things
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Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Whence came all of those wine bottles? And some look as though they are for liquor.
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Multa Nocte 3 years ago
If this is a photographer who takes pix of abandoned sites it is actually much better if they don't say where they took pix because a thousand other people will go there, party, tag the place up, and generally destroy it. It's professional courtesy not to say where it is - "leave only footprints."
María Hermida 3 years ago
Perhaps just general explanations, not an accurate location. Something like "abandoned hotel, Italy"
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Dionette 3 years ago
Reminds me of that documentary, "Life After People". There's something eerily mesmerizing about how nature reclaims what we've abandoned.
María Hermida 3 years ago
Yes, same here. It is a wonderful documentary, terribly sad but also hopeful... not for our species, though. Eventually, nature will claim its due.
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sofacushionfort 3 years ago
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. - Sarah Teasdale
María Hermida 3 years ago
Beautiful! This poem has haunted me for ages, since I read it in short story by Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles. I do hope the swallows, the robins and the plum trees remain here when we are gone...
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte 3 years ago
If this is a photographer who takes pix of abandoned sites it is actually much better if they don't say where they took pix because a thousand other people will go there, party, tag the place up, and generally destroy it. It's professional courtesy not to say where it is - "leave only footprints."
María Hermida 3 years ago
Perhaps just general explanations, not an accurate location. Something like "abandoned hotel, Italy"
Load More Replies... Dionette 3 years ago
Reminds me of that documentary, "Life After People". There's something eerily mesmerizing about how nature reclaims what we've abandoned.
María Hermida 3 years ago
Yes, same here. It is a wonderful documentary, terribly sad but also hopeful... not for our species, though. Eventually, nature will claim its due.
Load More Replies... sofacushionfort 3 years ago
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white; Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. - Sarah Teasdale
María Hermida 3 years ago
Beautiful! This poem has haunted me for ages, since I read it in short story by Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles. I do hope the swallows, the robins and the plum trees remain here when we are gone...
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