Abandonment photography

Top of the grand stairwell, Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital, 2008 Though insane asylums, prisons, and hospitals wouldn't necessarily be the first places that

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Although they look unsightly or scary in some ways, abandoned places tend to have a beauty unique to them that has been polished over time. To truly stop and appreciate small things means to understand what might have happened there and the reasons why the place was set aside. Mansions, cinemas, castles, theaters, pieces of incredible architecture design, and even abandoned ships in the seas are part of an endless photo series, taken by visual artist Kim Zier.

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Young girl's silhouette in the window of an abandoned building

For years now visiting Chernobyl and the post apocalyptic abandoned soviet town of Pripyat had been a dream. There is something eerily alluring about the idea of a town trapped in time, as the world has moved on this time capsule of the soviet era has been slowly crumbing. Twisting this once idealistic Utopian dream into something from a dystopian nightmare. As we grew more interested in both soviet history and Urban Exploring we looked to the horrific and spine tingling events of Chernobyl…