Death Cult

Some photos of the sensational Sedlec Ossuary in Kutná Hora (Czech Republic). An impressive example how death was celebrated in the Baroque.

Scooby Gang as Zombie Hunters

 

The Photographer Jeff Zoet published a series of photos that re-imagine the Scooby Gang as a group of post-apocalyptic zombie hunters.

Abandoned Amusement-Park

Dadipark was opened in october 1949 in the belgium town of Dadizeele. It was until it closed in 2003 one of the oldest amusement park of belgium. Since 2003 nature is slowly invading the deserted park, closed after an accident.
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Nazi Ruins

The remains of the gigantic Nazi resort Prora on the isle of Rügen. The building has a length of 4.5 kilometres.

Nature is Coming Back

Some photos of an abandoned recreation home in Eastern Germany. It's impressive to see how nature is coming back invading step by step the empty building.

Ruin Monuments

In the French village Oradour-sur-Glane a German Waffen-SS company massacred all inhabitants including women and children in Summer 1944 and burned the village down. The ruins of the village were later preserved as a permanent memorial. It's kind of an eerie place, death and devastation still present. But to achieve that effect the ruins have artificially to be kept clean, meaning the streets swept, the lawns cut and much more. Without this work nature would have taken over and covered all with trees.

Lovely Ruin Elements

Chelsea Market in Manhattan. A shopping mall and fruit market in Manhattan constructed 2006 in an old factory. There are a lot of elements quoting ruin and decay.

Design House in Greece

Ruin of a design house in Greece. Probably constructed in the 1960s for some rich man, later abandonded, now a playground for the local youth.

Airy Contrasts

Some time ago I discovered in an abandoned factory in Barcelona some artwork of the Brazilian artist Rodrigo Villas. Some colourful graffitis on the walls and above all the little birds, for which he’s probably best known.


These little bird sculptures provide a light, floating contrast to all the rotting concrete.

Haunted House

An old abandoned Art Nouveau mansion in Spain. It burned down some years ago and is now recovered by the vegetation, a really enchanted place.

Strange Leftovers

Some strange stone carvings in the Spanish community Catalonia. I think that’s all what’s left of an old medieval chapel.
Really fascinating place, but there's no sign, no description, nothing.

Abandoned Monastery

An abandoned monastery in northern Spain. Nature is coming back, destroying more and more of the old buildings.

Old Fortress

Abandoned pre World War One fortress in Lorraine (France). It’s closed but abandoned in the forest. The gun towers are exploded.

Kinda Atlantikwall Bunkers

On the Costa Brava in Spain I discovered this strange piece of modern architecture. Half a dozen cubical beach cabins are hosting a sailing school.



What I found really interesting – besides the neglected condition – was the inclined construction, which gives the illusion that the cabins where half sunken in the sand.

It reminded me immediately of the well known pictures of the old German bunkers of the Atlantikwall in France.

Roman Quarry

El Médol in an old roman stone quarry few kilometers north of Tarragona, near the Vía Augusta which connected Tarragona with Rome. The still impressive site has a special charm. Because of the humid microclimate in this artificial valley all is covered by tropical vegetation, different from the kind surrounding area.


In the center of the quarry rises a spectacular monolith called the "Needle of Médol" to a height from about 16 m.

Railway Tracks

Abandoned railway track in Spain near the Ebro Valley. You are passing old tunnels and viaducts through a mostly uninhabited landscape.




The photos were taken between Horta and Pinell de Brai.

Miru Kim: In Love with Ruins

Miru Kim is a Korean American artist living in New York. She explores industrial ruins and underground tunnels in New York, Berlin, Paris and other places. There she photographs herself nude. In her own words: "Nature had really reclaimed the whole complex … a human figure in the picture to become a part of that nature."



This clip shows Miru Kim in 2008 talking about her work. I like her point of view and her way of talking about her work and last not least her photos.