Beauty in Decay: The Art of Urban Exploration


Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.


The cover of this incredibly book sets the tone, a solitary figure walking up the steps of a decaying building wearing a gas mask . . . got your interest?

Well, it got mine - this book with its 192 glossy pages gives us a glimpse into the underbelly of cities many of us never get to see. 

These urban explorers who risk personal injury, jail time or worse radioactive poisoning to explore & photograph abandoned buildings, tunnels, ex-security/military installations throughout Europe have one motto - “Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.”
 

Quote from RomanyWG (Author) 
Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.
This is the unspoken rule of urban explorers, who sometimes risk their safety, police records, and even their lives to explore abandoned buildings, sewers and

storm drains, transit tunnels, utility tunnels, high-security areas of inhabited buildings, and even catacombs such as those in Paris, Rome, Odessa and Naples. Although these urban explorers usually work solo or in small teams, they collectively put forth a ground cry against a modern culture that embraces the new, polished, uniform, and mundane. Urban explorers find the beauty: layers of graffiti by years worth of writers, multi-hued peeling paint, antique objects, someone's initials left in the dust on a broken stained glass window and physical manifestations of memory that abandoned, impermanent urban spaces can hold. Beauty in Decay features the best in full-color, panoramic photographs from urban exploration or Urbex around the world.















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