I was given a book for Christmas called "Beauty in Decay II" filled with photos of old buildings across the world that have been falling apart for lack of care and government abandonment. The photographers call themselves urban explorers, and and they find their medium to work with, by escaping police eye and trespassing on property. As far as I know these photos have not been tampered with, but for a disclaimer on my part, the book does not give a lot of factual detail of how the photos were taken, rather the book presides more the visual poetic side in order to induce the reader's empathy.
I found the book to be startlingly beautiful and was gasping as I looked at old asylums that were shut down in the 1980s due to cutting costs in the British welfare systems. This was part of a plan that the British government was forming. They wanted to put the mentally disabled back in homes, and shut down the ever rising need to fuel these expensive institutions. So the buildings were left high and dry. I don't know much about this area of study, but these photographs have sparked an interest that I would love to continue to explore and research more on.
All Photography by: RomanyWG
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