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Urban deserts are terrible, sometimes worse than the real desert. One feels a sense of anger, frustration, and helplessness while he is seeing some environmental disaster, while he is passing near closed factories and abandoned buildings, walking around closed and impenetrable places that were once a source of social life. The camera is an excellent tool for raising awareness. Here I propose a few places in my city, hoping for a change.
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I have never tried an actual modeling shoot and fancied giving it a go. I had also just been introduced to a website called 28 Days Later. This website is for people to post shots of their urban exploring adventures. The idea is to gain access to forgotten sites those that are run down and disused, and take photos. The buildings are like a time capsule of the day they were shut.
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September 2011, Marije (s0y) and I finally took the trip we wanted to do for so long, visit Ukraine, Kiev and in particular, the 30km exclusion zone around Chernobyl, with the ghost town of Prypiat. When I saw the bumper carts, I almost cried. Afterwards, we were exhausted; there was so much to take in. And bringing too many cameras is never a good idea. ;)
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The Lehigh Valley, Eastern Pennsylvania, has many cemeteries. Some are maintained and some are ignored while others are maintained just enough so people won't pay attention. The cemetery on 2nd and Ridge Streets in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, looks like one of those cemeteries on the surface but when one looks into the history, the people who maintain it are not to blame.
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Last month in a demolished area in the North of Kunming City, the capital of Yunnan Province, I found some abandoned vintage black and white negatives in 120mm and 35mm.
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Just minutes from downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota sits the crown jewel of urban exploration in the Twin Cities – Hamm's Brewery. I've done a lot of urban exploration*, from drains and caves to abandoned factories and hospitals, but Hamm's Brewery is by far my favorite.
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Built as a lunatic asylum and later modified to be used as a clinical facility it is now empty, waiting for a new use. Until then, everything waits in a morbid slumber.
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Yan Kit Swimming Complex is located along Yan Kit Road at Tanjong Pagar area. It opened in 1952 and was the second public swimming pool in Singapore. The pool has been closed since 2001 and is now abandoned.
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We can say that this is a "live" location. In the 50s there were facilities for one of the great fishing companies in the world. Its installations were turned into a big abandoned building 20 years ago. Once thrown below the old building, it has eventually become the "Conference hall" of the city of Vigo.
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Last Sunday, I drove to Albenga to take photos of the abandoned factory that I always see when I enter the town. With my Holga camera and SX-70 in tow, I spent half an hour there just taking photos. It was a good spot for picture taking on a gloomy Sunday.
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With autumn closing in and the nights getting cold and dark it's about time to shiver a little more- both from the cold and from a picture journey through the abandoned hospital complex at Beelitz-Heilstätten...
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In the city I work in, there is an old abandoned pea peeling factory. It used to be a place for artists and musicians to perform, but since it's falling apart, nobody is using the rooms in there anymore. I often drive by and I wanted to go in there!
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Invisible from the road, there is a lot where several old boats and barges have been permanently "docked" along the Allegheny river.
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A trip the abandoned superintendent's house of the London asylum system located near the West Park Mental Asylum in Epsom, Surrey.
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Saturday night, October 31, 1981 was an unusual night in the port of Los Marmoles, in Lanzarote. There was a storm warning and the wind was blowing hard across the archipelago. The sea showed all his strength for the misfortunate travelers that sailed those waters.
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Twin Arrows is an abandoned gas station in Northern Arizona that is one of the most easily identifiable landmarks along Historic Route 66. The giant arrows, crumbling buildings and high desert views make for a great opportunity.
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Great contrast and nice black and white tones, Fuji Acros makes the transition a seamless one. Follow me 'Acros' the bridge to a whole new world of black and white photography!
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Nestled in the heart of the city, mere minutes away from the central business district, a relic from the past sit. From an age where black and white television was all the rage, Yan Kit swimming complex forms the micro-history of old Singapore. Dive in for more!
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Gone are the days Here are no housewives shopping at the wet market (which is shuttered anyway), no old men playing Chinese chess at the void decks, no children running around in the playground. The utter lack of humanity makes this place a ghost town.
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Care for traveling and having some spooks follow you around? Our Location of the Week takes us to an abandoned asylum in the UK that's sure to give you the chills!
