Urbex

I came across this book the other day and was amazed at the contents.

After some rooting about on the net, it appears that Urban Exploration (Urbex) is a big thing, whereby people with cameras gain access into abandoned buildings/ factories/ hospitals/ exposition sites etc and take atmospheric and artfully tasteful shots of what they find.

There are some truly breathtaking photos in this book, the one that sticks in my mind is of a school classroom with literally hundreds of gas masks strewn about the floor… I think it was somewhere in a forgotten corner of eastern Europe, a very unsettling image.

There is obviously risk involved in this pursuit (arrest, injury, and occasionally death by all accounts) but that’s obviously all part of the attraction. The images below illustrate a few of these otherworldly places and I can see why people are willing to take the risks…