KG13 http://kahlila.posterous.com Most recent posts at KG13 posterous.com Sat, 25 Sep 2010 05:38:00 -0700 Gregoire and friends in abandoned places http://kahlila.posterous.com/28926553 http://kahlila.posterous.com/28926553

Now if Amplify is doing what it promises to do you will see below these few words a do-up of pix of intriguing rooms long since abandoned by all but the dedicated urbex photographer. And below that will be a key with links to each item. And you will see it whether you're in Amplify, Posterous or Tumblr, with a note to Twitter and Facebook as well. Plus, I will see it in Delicious. All sounds marvellous, doesn't it, but Amplify has not delivered on its promises in recent days. Let's see.

Tableau features work of Flickr's JREJ (Gregoire Cachemaille, who lives in Berlin), Mobileohm (Paris) and friends.
Click here to see it large or even at 1225px

  See key below for individual pix on their Flickr pages

1. Red Room, 2. Theatre, Krampnitz, 3. New Sky Building, 4. Square Room,
5. [ Potters living room ], 6. Welcome to my Nightmare, 7. Der Sessel am Fenster, 8. The Watcher,

9. [ abandoned children's home .02 ], 10. executive, 11. nature at work, 12. in my bed, 13. united color of communism, 14. unarmed, 15. royal,
16. Working class luxus suite

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Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:16:00 -0700 Truly gruesome stories http://kahlila.posterous.com/truly-gruesome-stories http://kahlila.posterous.com/truly-gruesome-stories

. . . with photos, here - of 11 abandoned hospitals and asylums in the US. One of them - Greystone - was the final home of Woody Guthrie, who developed Huntingdon's disease in later life.
At least one is still inhabited - by squatters.

 

It wasn’t until Charlie Lord, a young conscientious objector to WWII and a Quaker, was sent as punishment to work as an orderly at Byberry that the outside world was given a glimpse of what life was like there. Lord was appalled at the conditions he saw; most patients were naked and huddled together in barren concrete rooms, defecating on the floor, with no mental stimulation or humane treatment of any sort. Unable to convince reporters of what he saw, Lord snuck a Agfa camera into the hospital and took three roles of 36 exposure film, capturing some unbelievable scenes.  One of the first people who saw the images was Eleanor Roosevelt, who vowed to end the horrors at Byberry. Lord’s photos were published in the May 1946 edition of Life magazine and single handedly helped bring about reform to mental health institutions across the country.

Read more at www.nileguide.com

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Sat, 11 Sep 2010 19:03:00 -0700 RomanyWG http://kahlila.posterous.com/romanywg http://kahlila.posterous.com/romanywg

Tribute to a legend of urbex photography

1. Another Wrong Corridor, 2. Beauty in Decay - TalkUrbex interview, 3. All the Fives, 4. Broken pain.,

5. Textures and paint, 6. Sunday Columns, 7. Dusk at the Cristallerie., 8. The Wrong Corridor, 9. He packed...... but he never left, 10. Sheffield Refractory 1, 11. Hellingly Hall., 12. romanywg-1

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Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:14:00 -0700 Gritty history http://kahlila.posterous.com/gritty-history http://kahlila.posterous.com/gritty-history

 

Each blog entry at AmericanUrbex explores a building that was once important enough to be shown in postcards. All are now boarded up. The locations are shown on Google Maps and some history is explored, with photos of course, and links.

Some thought goes into this project, most of it done by Wisconsin-based Ken Fager.

 

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Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:49:00 -0700 abandoned http://kahlila.posterous.com/abandoned http://kahlila.posterous.com/abandoned

 

 

Englishman RomanyWG is one of the real forces in urbex photography, and has lately produced a book called Beauty In Decay, featuring 49 photographers. I wouldn't normally promote a book but must make an exception here because I bought it and have been quite bowled over by the quality. It is a well-bound hard-covered art book and sells at Amazon for only $US25.

Click pix here through to my collection of favourite pix of abandoned buildings and industry, and to their source pages. Those above these words are by RomanyWG himself and those below by German Kiekmal.

 

 

 

 

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RomanyWG also documents street art and murals . . .

 

 

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Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:43:00 -0700 Eike Manfred explores the past http://kahlila.posterous.com/eike-manfred-explores-the-past http://kahlila.posterous.com/eike-manfred-explores-the-past

. . . in the form of buildings, in a country that is saturated with pain, cruelty -- and questions.

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Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:34:00 -0700 Forgotten where these buildings lived and died. Indianapolis? http://kahlila.posterous.com/21642507 http://kahlila.posterous.com/21642507

 

Jerald Thompson will commit to nothing on his Flickr profile except that he is "a human being".

It's obvious he's obsessed with neglected, forgotten and nondescript buildings though, and likely he lives in Indianapolis.

 

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Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:54:00 -0700 SureShut - Germany http://kahlila.posterous.com/21376964 http://kahlila.posterous.com/21376964

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Berliner SureShut urbexes Germany with great abandon — teleport there

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Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:40:46 -0700 Untitled http://kahlila.posterous.com/21567062 http://kahlila.posterous.com/21567062

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Shexbeer (Polish photographer Roman Sołowiej)
has his own blog and is also in Flickr

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Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:54:00 -0700 Untitled http://kahlila.posterous.com/21576114 http://kahlila.posterous.com/21576114

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Vetri Alex

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Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:16:52 -0700 Untitled http://kahlila.posterous.com/21377030 http://kahlila.posterous.com/21377030

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Rule, or Roel, is a young Belgian photographer who says:

i used to visit some places in the neighborhood without a cam. Then my intrest in photography grew and i documented a few places, searched a bit on the net without even knowing the term Urbex.

But he was a natural for urbex; his photos are stunning!

 

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Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:26:31 -0700 Untitled http://kahlila.posterous.com/21567112 http://kahlila.posterous.com/21567112

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Englishman Howzey has more than 2000 photos on Flickr, arranged by place and subject matter into something like 75 sets. The odd abandoned mansion was inevitable!


Explore more HERE

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Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:32:07 -0700 Untitled http://kahlila.posterous.com/21576121 http://kahlila.posterous.com/21576121

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Bousure — a Frenchman with a vast
collection of urbex photos here

Inspiring!

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Cloggo, standing before these scenes, would ponder their workings and fill in the details from the past; whereas I marvel at how time and nature have claimed them since they were abandoned. There is no RIGHT way of looking at them, of course, although his is certainly more informative.


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The above are abandoned machinery at the Cocking Limeworks in England while below is one from a set of 117 impressions of a hospital complex in Berlin.
Beelitz-Heilstatten was built in 1898 and used during both world wars.
Polanski filmed parts of his movie The Pianist there.


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All photos by Howzey, in Flickr


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Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:23:28 -0800 Chernobyl from the inside http://kahlila.posterous.com/chernobyl-from-the-inside http://kahlila.posterous.com/chernobyl-from-the-inside http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/spring2007.html

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Elena Filatova is a real-life hero of mine.

She explores abandoned places and has been especially admired for her observations on Chernobyl.
Having been born in Prypiat, nearby, she has returned there several times, and published this elegant, moving and very reflective illustrated essay (click pix or title) in 2004 — 18 years after the disaster.

Other subjects she explores at her website are equally taboo — places of death and incarceration, including the gulag, for example — and she is so outspoken about politics, and so independent that a reader can’t help worrying for her safety at times.


Here’s a taste (the captions are hers):


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My favourite are roads that haven’t been ridden for years.
Sometimes, I leave a log on the road to see if someone else will travel here.
When I return in a year or two, seeing my log has not been moved suggests that I still have no followers.


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Chernobyl is so easily forgotten because it was only known to ourselves.
In the first years after the accident we didn’t want to share our story with the world, now we can not share it, we hardly remember it ourselves.
All that remains of the tragic tale is a memory, weak and disfigured by time.

In the future, indifference of people will smother the few remaining embers until at last they too are extinguished.
After that Chernobyl will always remain inside knowledge of a few eminent individuals and the sole property of nature.


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Now here’s a little extra for you, Cloggo: Elena Filativa travels by motorbike and uses the nickname Kiddofspeed


She writes about her mode of travel:

I have ridden all my life and over the years I have owned several different motorbikes.
I ended my search for a perfect bike with a big kawasaki ninja, that boasts a mature 147 horse power, some serious bark, is fast as a bullet and comfortable for a long trips.
I travel a lot and one of my favorite destinations leads North from Kiev, towards so called Chernobyl “dead zone”, which is 130kms from my home.

Why my favorite? Because one can take long rides there on empty roads.
The people there all left and nature is blooming. There are beautiful woods and lakes.
In places where roads have not been travelled by trucks or army vehicles, they are in the same condition they were 20 years ago — except for an occasional blade of grass or some tree that discovered a crack to spring through.
Time does not ruin roads, so they may stay this way until they can be opened to normal traffic again … a few centuries from now.

 

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Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:27:00 -0800 Untitled http://kahlila.posterous.com/21377407 http://kahlila.posterous.com/21377407

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North Brother Island, New York (photograph via)

North Brother Island is an abandoned island in the East River situated between the Bronx and Riker’s Island. The island was uninhabited until 1885, when the Riverside Hospital was built.

Riverside Hospital was founded to treat and isolate victims of smallpox. Its mission eventually expanded to other quarantinable diseases. Typhoid Mary - the first person in the United States to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever - was confined to the island for over two decades until she died there in 1938. The hospital closed shortly thereafter.

After World War II, the island housed war veterans who were students at local colleges, along with their families. After the nationwide housing shortage abated, the island was once again abandoned.

The island is currently abandoned and off-limits to the public. Most of the original hospitals buildings still stand, but are heavily deteriorated and in danger of collapse. A dense forest conceals the ruined hospital buildings and supports one of the area’s largest nesting colonies of Black-crowned Night Heron.


Suggested by Mat Coes

 

Do I have to be seriously ill, dying or certifiably insane to want to live in such a gorgeous room?

It has struck me many times that the asylums so popular with lovers of photography/abandoned were in buildings and settings that inspire.
And since “mad” people were recategorised and turned out onto the streets, the property that was not immediately redeveloped just gave itself up to nature.

I would want to live there, in that room, just as it is!
It closely matches an image I have had in my mind since childhood, in fact, or a roughly round or octagonal house with a kitchen as the central hub and one large surrounding room, itself surrounded by trees.


The closest I ever saw to such a house in reality was this one designed by Frank Lloyd Wright:

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It was built in Pleasantville NY, and is in private hands; I have never seen the plan made available.

 

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Seen from another angle, as easy as it is on the eye it is not mine at all.
Mine is completely surrounded with trees.

 

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Eholubow on Flickr

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