#abandonedplaces

[featherrest]

No Man’s Land

She has crossed into a territory where the living are only visitors. Here, time has abandoned its straight course. What remains is stone, silence and the fragile certainty of being present for one more moment.

Photo: Thomas Gerwers

[nerodevine]

[nerodevine]

[thefoolandthephilomath]

dreaming of you.

disposable camera, 35mm, by me.

[thinkingofyours]

Wildlife in Abandoned Places: How Animals Reclaimed Human Ghost Towns

Picture a street you know. Now imagine an area where you do not pay attention to the noise of cars, the sound of humans wearing shopping bags, and the rumble of street cleaners. In their place, a wolf moves quietly across roads. A group of deer eats the flowers growing through a square with monuments. Thick vines, like snakes, cover the lower parts of tall buildings, and inside the empty lobby, a…

Wildlife in Abandoned Places: How Animals Reclaimed Human Ghost Towns

[thefoolandthephilomath]

a swamp witch and her babies.

35mm fujifilm 400, canon elan 7e, double exposures, by me.

[thefoolandthephilomath]

even swamp witches fall in love.

35mm fujifilm 400, canon elan 7e, double exposure, by me.

[ilcontephotography]

Right near to the place where Napoleon fought the Battle of Marengo in 1800 - deafeating the Austrians and expelling them from North-Western Italy - there is an old sugar mill, built in 1900 and abandoned in the 1980s.

There were plans to convert the buildings commercially, but the discovery of large amounts of heavy pollutants in the soil, caused by the nearby Solvay factory, and the resulting huge cleanup costs stopped everything.

These photos are from 2010, the sugar factory is still there. The bright blue on the wall of one photo is due to the asbestos removal works.

Spinetta Marengo, Italy.

© Roberto Conte (2010)

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