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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

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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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    PatriciaDeLaet
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    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    ShereenSeyam
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    SusannaVesna
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!!

    NancyWhetstone
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    GeorgeRozehnal
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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..

    AnneLau
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    @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.

    ΗλιαςΠουλικιδης
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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..

    PeterLedoux
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    BonitaBielawski
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    BeatrijsAnckaert
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.........?

    Pemberton
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

    Atlantis31
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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...

    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Load More Replies...
    Jeannine Bolink
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    NancyHelgeson
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    AmandaK
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    GuilianaFabiano
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!!!

    KarenChaddock
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    IndustrialRosePhotography
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Tana
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    PatriciaDeLaet
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    ShereenSeyam
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    SusannaVesna
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!!

    NancyWhetstone
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    GeorgeRozehnal
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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..

    AnneLau
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    @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.

    ΗλιαςΠουλικιδης
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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..

    PeterLedoux
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Load More Replies...
    BonitaBielawski
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    BeatrijsAnckaert
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.........?

    Pemberton
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

    Atlantis31
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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...

    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Load More Replies...
    Jeannine Bolink
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    NancyHelgeson
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    AmandaK
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    GuilianaFabiano
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!!!

    KarenChaddock
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

    IndustrialRosePhotography
    Community Member
    8 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Tana
    Community Member
    9 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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