VOL.01
Detroit’s horrible, beautiful decline has been so well documented by urban explorers that to the outside world, it might seem it’s the only thing to know about this once great industrial metropolis. And yet undeniably, it’s vast urban abandonment is intensely interesting. My latest guilty fascination is the Detroit’s renaissance revival theatre that has [...]
Paris lies is the center of Ile-de-France, the most populated region in the country with more residents than Austria, Belgium, Greece, Portugal or Sweden alone. It boasts the world’s fourth-largest and Europe’s wealthiest and largest regional economy. But one small corner of the region paints a very different picture. Just a thirty minute drive north [...]
Chene House, Detroit, 1973-2010 I keep coming back to Detroit. It’s bizarre how photogenic the downfall of America’s industrial powerhouse can be. However there’s an eerie and unwanted sense of responsibility to be felt when looking through these before & after photographs of Detroit taken in 1973 and 2010 by the same photographer, Dave Jordano. I [...]
St. Tropez, Miami Beach, the Bahamas; imagine if the world’s most glamorous seaside resorts were abandoned overnight; the luxury hotels emptied of their guests and left to slowly decay, the boutiques, bars and nightclubs reclaimed by nature, sunbathers replaced by sea turtles nesting on the deserted beaches and the once vibrant holiday spirit silenced; nothing [...]
Cuba; a tropical time machine, rich in nostalgia, full of sadness, always vibrant. I like contradictions and I know I would fall in love with Cuba. People have told me to forget it; the food is terrible, the street sellers are tough, but I’m still not deterred. For once in my life, I wouldn’t be [...]
Welcome to Niaqornat, Northwest Greenland. Population: 59. Dogs outnumber people in this surreal
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People choose to live in some pretty baffling places, like those towns sitting at the base of
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You may recall we recently discovered Kowloon City, the Hong Kong ‘historical
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Alright, so you might have noticed I have a weakness for French real estate p0rn. [Sigh] I
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It was the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century, where a room cost
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“It’s not a symbol of harassment. It’s a symbol of a woman having an absolutely
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This is the story of a French postman who spent thirty years of his life building his dream home–
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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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More abandoned p0rn to tie you over this Monday afternoon, this time, Victorian and Art Deco
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Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the
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Forget the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Chartres Cathedral, I’ve got some alternative
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(c) André Gonçalves The Vatican, the leaning Tower of Pisa, the canals of Venice, Pompeii– you
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