If you enter this property, you will be seen as a trespasser by the law. There aren’t any “No Trespassing” signs or neighbours for miles away. Sometimes you just stumble upon an abandoned farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. I understand that access can be the biggest of all hurdles. (If you want us to revive this workshop, let us know in the comments!) Winging It It was an amazing experience and epic workshop. We had to prove our love for preserving this building and of course pay a fee that went to helping stabilize it for future generations. My contact worked very closely with the town that was restoring the casino. We led an Opulence and Decay workshop with National Parks at Night and Atlas Obscura in 2019, which included access to this location. The key to accessing the Constanța Casino: Fortunately I have a friend in Romania who loves ruins and history as much as I. It felt like I had finally experienced ruinism to the highest degree. The sheep wandered into roofless homes at will. On the day I was there, no one else was present except for some sheep herders and their flock. I spent the day wandering around a town where the people had been forced to leave their homes, churches and shops due to protocols written up by the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. While staying in the beautiful port city of Fethiye, I was told of the history and modern ruins of Kayaköy. Never steal any artifacts-take only pictures!Įxample 1: The Abandoned Village of Kayaköy, Turkey Share your respect and passion for memorializing the location before it disappears.įind the organization or person that owns/maintains it. Understand the history and importance of this place. Getting Accessīesides the legal “pay for access” places, let me share a few examples of how to get in. Long exposures, ghosts and light painting are wonderful tools to aid in this storytelling.

When photographing these abandoned locations, I always try to tap into the history and capture the spirit. 79-partly out of intellectual curiosity, and partly for creative purposes. When I walked through the streets of Pompeii, I imagined what it had looked like before Vesuvius erupted in A.D. The modern world had grown around and incorporated the remnants of some of these age-old civilizations, while others had been completely forgotten by time. I was visiting all the ancient cities: Rome, Delphi, Thebes, Mycenae, Troy, Constantinople. In fact, that is where the term ruinism was born. My favorite class in school was ancient history, so when I had an opportunity to live in Greece for 6 months in the 1990s, it was a dream come true. Some locations have lasted for thousands of years while others are barely standing, helped by the vines and ivy that have replaced the walls. There are very few whispers of secret abandoned places. In this age of social sharing, the world has become much smaller than it was 10 to 20 years ago.

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