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Empty Spaces

A documentary on abandoned places in Chicago filmed and produced by Chicago videographer Matthew Lawton. Coverage of hospitals, stadiums, prisons and more.

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Highlights from my visit to Mt.Carmel Cemetery in Hillside where Mr. Al Capone was buried along with the rest of his family members. Some of the most beautiful, extravagant tombs I’ve seen in this cemetery although Capone’s was quite simple and elegant.

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My woman crush wednesday goes out to this awesome seattle artist. Love this poisonous frog inspired duo by graffiti couple AMUSE & MERLOT. Dopeness.

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Chicago artists PHOR and THERD working their trackside magic.

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Photographer ©Christopher Payne explores and captures New York City’s abandoned North Brother Island with a 4x5 camera. The photographer specializes in the documentation of America’s vanishing architecture and industrial landscape. North Brother Island sits in the East River, nestled in between the Bronx and Riker’s Island. “Between the 1880s and the 1930s, North Brother Island was the site of Riverside Hospital, where those suffering from infectious disease were treated in isolation, the infamous Typhoid Mary, the cook who carried a deadly disease and infected more than 50 New Yorkers in the early 20th century, spent her final years confined to this mysterious island. After World War II, it served as a housing community for returning veterans and their families. In the 1950s and early 1960s, it became a juvenile drug treatment center." The uninhabited island is now designated as a bird sanctuary. The adjacent South Brother Island once occupied by brewery magnate, Jacob Ruppert had a summer house there before it burned down in 1909. No one has lived on the island since then, and now serves as a wildlife sanctuary. Since 2008, with permission from the NYC Parks Department, Payne has been one of a few photographers allowed on the island. His photographs comprise a comprehensive record of the buildings and its evolving landscape over many seasons. The book ‘North Brother Island - The Last Unknown Place in New York City’, is available for purchase online

h/t slate - all images ©christopher payne

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This is an amazing find of an article! Starting in 1987, Robert Conrad risked his freedom to secretly photograph Adolf Hitler’s decaying bunker in what was then East Berlin. Disguised as a construction worker, he snuck inside some 30 times, and has now finally revealed his work. I fully recommend reading the whole article here;

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/secret-photographs-of-hitler-bunker-in-berlin-by-robert-conrad-a-903750.html Following this post is some of his photos.

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Starting in 1987, Robert Conrad risked his freedom to secretly photograph Adolf Hitler’s decaying bunker in what was then East Berlin. Disguised as a construction worker, he snuck inside some 30 times, and has now finally revealed his work.

See previous posts for details.

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The photographer, Robert Conrad, in a 1988 self-portrait he took in front of the “Führer’s bunker,” where Hitler shot himself in April 1945. He disguised himself as a construction worker to sneak into the site, which was being demolished.