The trendy pastime of photographing decaying buildings and factories has given rise to the term “Urbexer”. At times at high risk, city dwellers roam through ruins armed with cameras and climb through old buildings that are collapsing at any moment.
The word is made up of urban and exploration and refers to a young genre of ruin photography. The urbexers are attracted by the disappearance or decay of man-made structures, which are usually located in urban areas, and document their slumber with their recordings.
explorers in the province
But the phenomenon of morbid aesthetics also exists in the countryside. Perhaps even more so there, because the mostly isolated farmsteads were abandoned not only because of poor harvests, but also because the residents could no longer cope with the loneliness.
No people can be seen in the selection of images in this photo series. Therefore, when viewed, they offer endless space for stories and questions: What made people move here and till the soil? Why did they have to give up, sometimes fleeing the house and leaving a lot of things in the rooms where they are?
On the photo series above we show some lost places in the country: farmsteads between Iceland and Sicily, remains of farms in Canada or Western Australia.
You can also click through the following Lost Places photo galleries:
– Once upon a time people lived here – now the places are forgotten beauties
– Photo book “Between the worlds”: These villas are only inhabited by ghosts
– Canfranc in the Pyrenees: This Spanish ghost station awakens from its slumber