collective thoughts of an untapped imagination

A Bullet from a Shooting Star (Images 1 & 2)

Telling the Truth Through False Teeth (Images 3 & 4)

A Pound of Flesh for 50p (Images 5 & 6)

Take my Lightning but Don’t Steal my Thunder (Images 7 & 8)

Abandoned since the late-1970s due to a handful of earthquakes, Apice, Italy is a ghost town. What marks it different from an abandoned area in LA or NY is the complete lack of graffiti. Van Styles investigates with his camera for this photo set.

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Inside North Korea

Abandoned Hotel Rooms in Europe

Parròquia de Sant Josep Girona, Catalonia, Spain; 1951-53

Joaquím M. Masramón

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When Buffalo State Hospital was sealed off to keep the trespassers at bay, the first floor was boarded off completely - leaving near-pitch-darkness.  On my final trip into the asylum, I was determined to get a shot of the Wheelchair Graveyard - a yellow ward in the brick section of the building that was completely without light.  So I brought in a half-dozen LED lanterns and other light sources, and spent an hour arranging them so that the light looked as realistic - in terms of mimicking window light - as possible.  Finally, I got this 8-minute exposure off, and was satisfied that I’d captured the aura of the ward.

This is the fourth floor of the end of the female wards at Hudson River State Hospital. Time has decidedly been unkind to this asylum; water has ravaged it, and a fire in 2007 took out the male wards. There was once a plan to redevelop the site - and this once-beautiful Kirkbride building - into residential development, but the town of Poughkeepsie stalled on rezoning, and then the fire pretty much ended that possibility. Now, the better parts of the wards look like this - and the worse parts don’t have floors.