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I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

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When I was young, I fell in love with abandoned buildings. After I got a camera as a present, I started photographing the beauty there. I mostly photograph empty buildings with great staircases or interiors.

I simply adore old decaying architecture, their patterns and textures – they remind me that everything is impermanent. Abandoned architecture photography is my ongoing project and I often travel around Europe looking for abandoned buildings.

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I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

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I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

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I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

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I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

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I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

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I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

I Search For Abandoned Buildings All Around Europe And Photograph Them

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christian richter

collect moments not things photographer based in germany

collect moments not things photographer based in germany

What do you think ?

PatriciaDeLaet 9 years ago

Wonderful photos! I would love to know where these buildings and what they are. Would you consider adding that info?

24points

DariaB 9 years ago

My exact same thoughts.

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JacquiHill 9 years ago

such a lot of beautiful buildings with awesome architectural features going to wrack and ruin makes me want to cry :( great photos tho

17points

NicoleTaylor 9 years ago

I had the same reaction. :(

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ShereenSeyam 9 years ago

there is also the idea that beauty exists even in the ruins if it resides in the eye of the beholder.

11points

SusannaVesna 9 years ago

And they say there is no place to keep the immigrants! Look at these abandoned mansions! Fix them up and loads of people could live in there!!

3points

SusannaVesna 9 years ago

Refugees*

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Imperfekt 9 years ago

I could just imagine the sounds, and voices, music and performances in each from times past.

3points

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

i think the same too

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DebraBrooksKapellakis 9 years ago

wow, sure wish I could save some of these

3points

NancyWhetstone 9 years ago

While those are fabulous photos, they make me feel incredibly sad.

3points

Luspea 9 years ago

Abandoned buildings have something magical in them. How many of them were hunted? ;D

3points

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

i do this over 5 years i can't count how many i visited

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GeorgeRozehnal 9 years ago

Amazing witnesses to our not so distant yesteryear... These sites MUST be preserved and their glory restored. Not sure if removing paintings and other art from such places for safe storage would constitute theft. Hope not, for the sake of the abandoned art..

2points

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

i took only photos there. thanks alot for your kind words

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ShereenSeyam 9 years ago

Besides the idea that things are impermanent,

2points

AnneLau 9 years ago

@Jacqui Hill: I agree about these photos being great (breathtakingly beautiful, I would say), but they don't make me feel sad at all, on the contrary. Actually, I think they encapsulate the beauty of transience perfectly. It's almost poetic how capturing the decay freezes the process in time. Very wabi-sabi.

2points

ΗλιαςΠουλικιδης 9 years ago

Ι envy you a lot.. Here in Greece (at least around my region) most buildings are insignificant and are hard to get in, still the feeling of getting in these buildings stays the same, at most..

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

i travel a lot to become a good photo like you see

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Zeinabelassawi 9 years ago

Amazingly perfect.

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christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

thanks a lot

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PeterLedoux 9 years ago

Yes Patricia, exactly what I was thinking. Where and what are these places?

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

i don't share some info about abandoned locations to protect them. a lot of buildings are destroyed from sprayer and vandals after the public on web. hope for understanding and the imagination is a part of the image

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NicCarpenter 9 years ago

These just make me think "if I had the money what brilliantly places to restore into beautiful homes..."

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

me too Nic

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BonitaBielawski 9 years ago

Wow. The amount of abandoned piano's! And I cant believe the beautiful building are abandoned. In south Africa where I come from you wouldnt find any abandoned buildings, people will squat in them. And Piano's would be sold on, not abandoned. Practically any second hand furniture has value here. All of it gets re-used.

1point

Bonita Bielawski 7 years ago

Beautiful!

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Sonia.Alexandra 9 years ago

Simply astonishing photos! O.O These can take your breath away. Amazing!

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

thanks a lot

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BeatrijsAnckaert 9 years ago

but, very very nice pics !

1point

BeatrijsAnckaert 9 years ago

my hart bleeds while seeing all this builders beaty, thinking of the ugly concrete blocks rising everywhere. Why do we not care for this overwhelming old places.........?

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

that's a good question i think all things must die.

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ValerieMarcotte 9 years ago

More than a little bit creepy, though beautiful also.

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

many thanks for your kind words

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Pemberton 9 years ago

I'm a bit worried to see the pic of the ruined hospital. There seem to be some organs and chemicals left. I hope the photographer didn't get mysterious virus or something after visiting there!

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

oh i'm staying healthy thanks

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NancyWhetstone 9 years ago

Those photos make me feel incredibly sad.

1point

Luspea 9 years ago

It would be interesting to know at least the countries in which those buildings are

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

around europe germany, france, italy, belgium

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YağızAkınAkarsu 9 years ago

Awesome places and the best foto art makes it better!

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

glad you like it

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Atlantis31 9 years ago

Photos are amazing, but the most important thifs are missing : what it was, where, why it is abandonned and when. Because, for me, it is not the place itself, but the memories of the people who were here that i see in the pictures...

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

hello Atlantis the imagination is a part of the image

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ChristinaKachel 9 years ago

beautiful, evocative, portraits of a bygone era.

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

thank you

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Eddie_77 9 years ago

should put the name of the places

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

Hello Eddie i don't share some info about abandoned locations to protect them. a lot of buildings are destroyed from sprayer and vandals after the public on web. hope for understanding

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christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

thanks everyone for the kind words

1point

NimaParagjee 9 years ago

Love these!

1point

RachelGrajales 9 years ago

Nice

1point

ShereenSeyam 9 years ago

One of a kind photography.

1point

ShereenSeyam 9 years ago

Amazing

1point

monicawarren 9 years ago

Beautiful fotos <3

1point

Jeannine Bolink 8 years ago

Great pics, Christian! I love those old ruined abandoned buildings. Makes one wonder why and how people left those lovely places...

0points

NancyHelgeson 8 years ago

Amazing photography, and so mystical! Like others who responded here, I would love to at least know what country and what the structure used to be.

0points

AmandaK 8 years ago

Beautiful photographs, I try to imagine what kind of lives the people who lived or used them had, what clothes they wore, what did they do, were they happy.

0points

GuilianaFabiano 8 years ago

I'd like to see many of these restored, if possible. What amazing houses those churches would make!!! Never mind all that magnificent plaster work!!!

0points

KarenChaddock 8 years ago

Some interesting photos. It makes me wonder what happened there that people abandoned them and left valuable books and paintings behind ?

0points

IndustrialRosePhotography 8 years ago

These are amazing photographs! I wish I could get to photograph such beauty! Maybe check out my page and see some of the abandoned places I have photographed in the Widwest of the US

0points

AvishaVdWesthuizen 9 years ago

great job really nice

0points

Tana 9 years ago

He doesn't leave the address so to protect the buildings...

0points

AnnaMika 9 years ago

great work! :)

0points

ZaCkGamkrelidze 9 years ago

amazing

0points

SimonaNaydenova 9 years ago

Is one of the buildings from Bulgaria?

0points

PatriciaDeLaet 9 years ago

Wonderful photos! I would love to know where these buildings and what they are. Would you consider adding that info?

24points

DariaB 9 years ago

My exact same thoughts.

3points

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JacquiHill 9 years ago

such a lot of beautiful buildings with awesome architectural features going to wrack and ruin makes me want to cry :( great photos tho

17points

NicoleTaylor 9 years ago

I had the same reaction. :(

4points

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ShereenSeyam 9 years ago

there is also the idea that beauty exists even in the ruins if it resides in the eye of the beholder.

11points

SusannaVesna 9 years ago

And they say there is no place to keep the immigrants! Look at these abandoned mansions! Fix them up and loads of people could live in there!!

3points

SusannaVesna 9 years ago

Refugees*

1point

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Imperfekt 9 years ago

I could just imagine the sounds, and voices, music and performances in each from times past.

3points

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

i think the same too

1point

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DebraBrooksKapellakis 9 years ago

wow, sure wish I could save some of these

3points

NancyWhetstone 9 years ago

While those are fabulous photos, they make me feel incredibly sad.

3points

Luspea 9 years ago

Abandoned buildings have something magical in them. How many of them were hunted? ;D

3points

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

i do this over 5 years i can't count how many i visited

0points

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GeorgeRozehnal 9 years ago

Amazing witnesses to our not so distant yesteryear... These sites MUST be preserved and their glory restored. Not sure if removing paintings and other art from such places for safe storage would constitute theft. Hope not, for the sake of the abandoned art..

2points

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

i took only photos there. thanks alot for your kind words

0points

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ShereenSeyam 9 years ago

Besides the idea that things are impermanent,

2points

AnneLau 9 years ago

@Jacqui Hill: I agree about these photos being great (breathtakingly beautiful, I would say), but they don't make me feel sad at all, on the contrary. Actually, I think they encapsulate the beauty of transience perfectly. It's almost poetic how capturing the decay freezes the process in time. Very wabi-sabi.

2points

ΗλιαςΠουλικιδης 9 years ago

Ι envy you a lot.. Here in Greece (at least around my region) most buildings are insignificant and are hard to get in, still the feeling of getting in these buildings stays the same, at most..

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

i travel a lot to become a good photo like you see

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Zeinabelassawi 9 years ago

Amazingly perfect.

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

thanks a lot

1point

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PeterLedoux 9 years ago

Yes Patricia, exactly what I was thinking. Where and what are these places?

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

i don't share some info about abandoned locations to protect them. a lot of buildings are destroyed from sprayer and vandals after the public on web. hope for understanding and the imagination is a part of the image

0points

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NicCarpenter 9 years ago

These just make me think "if I had the money what brilliantly places to restore into beautiful homes..."

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

me too Nic

1point

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BonitaBielawski 9 years ago

Wow. The amount of abandoned piano's! And I cant believe the beautiful building are abandoned. In south Africa where I come from you wouldnt find any abandoned buildings, people will squat in them. And Piano's would be sold on, not abandoned. Practically any second hand furniture has value here. All of it gets re-used.

1point

Bonita Bielawski 7 years ago

Beautiful!

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Sonia.Alexandra 9 years ago

Simply astonishing photos! O.O These can take your breath away. Amazing!

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

thanks a lot

1point

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BeatrijsAnckaert 9 years ago

but, very very nice pics !

1point

BeatrijsAnckaert 9 years ago

my hart bleeds while seeing all this builders beaty, thinking of the ugly concrete blocks rising everywhere. Why do we not care for this overwhelming old places.........?

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

that's a good question i think all things must die.

0points

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ValerieMarcotte 9 years ago

More than a little bit creepy, though beautiful also.

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

many thanks for your kind words

0points

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Pemberton 9 years ago

I'm a bit worried to see the pic of the ruined hospital. There seem to be some organs and chemicals left. I hope the photographer didn't get mysterious virus or something after visiting there!

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

oh i'm staying healthy thanks

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NancyWhetstone 9 years ago

Those photos make me feel incredibly sad.

1point

Luspea 9 years ago

It would be interesting to know at least the countries in which those buildings are

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

around europe germany, france, italy, belgium

0points

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YağızAkınAkarsu 9 years ago

Awesome places and the best foto art makes it better!

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

glad you like it

0points

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Atlantis31 9 years ago

Photos are amazing, but the most important thifs are missing : what it was, where, why it is abandonned and when. Because, for me, it is not the place itself, but the memories of the people who were here that i see in the pictures...

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

hello Atlantis the imagination is a part of the image

0points

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ChristinaKachel 9 years ago

beautiful, evocative, portraits of a bygone era.

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

thank you

0points

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Eddie_77 9 years ago

should put the name of the places

1point

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

Hello Eddie i don't share some info about abandoned locations to protect them. a lot of buildings are destroyed from sprayer and vandals after the public on web. hope for understanding

1point

Load More Replies...

christianrichter (Post author) 9 years ago

thanks everyone for the kind words

1point

NimaParagjee 9 years ago

Love these!

1point

RachelGrajales 9 years ago

Nice

1point

ShereenSeyam 9 years ago

One of a kind photography.

1point

ShereenSeyam 9 years ago

Amazing

1point

monicawarren 9 years ago

Beautiful fotos <3

1point

Jeannine Bolink 8 years ago

Great pics, Christian! I love those old ruined abandoned buildings. Makes one wonder why and how people left those lovely places...

0points

NancyHelgeson 8 years ago

Amazing photography, and so mystical! Like others who responded here, I would love to at least know what country and what the structure used to be.

0points

AmandaK 8 years ago

Beautiful photographs, I try to imagine what kind of lives the people who lived or used them had, what clothes they wore, what did they do, were they happy.

0points

GuilianaFabiano 8 years ago

I'd like to see many of these restored, if possible. What amazing houses those churches would make!!! Never mind all that magnificent plaster work!!!

0points

KarenChaddock 8 years ago

Some interesting photos. It makes me wonder what happened there that people abandoned them and left valuable books and paintings behind ?

0points

IndustrialRosePhotography 8 years ago

These are amazing photographs! I wish I could get to photograph such beauty! Maybe check out my page and see some of the abandoned places I have photographed in the Widwest of the US

0points

AvishaVdWesthuizen 9 years ago

great job really nice

0points

Tana 9 years ago

He doesn't leave the address so to protect the buildings...

0points

AnnaMika 9 years ago

great work! :)

0points

ZaCkGamkrelidze 9 years ago

amazing

0points

SimonaNaydenova 9 years ago

Is one of the buildings from Bulgaria?

0points

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