So I was just talking to my friend Bridget about my penchant for picture of abandoned buildings. I was online earlier today reading my emails when Amazon sent me a "recommends" email. I purchased a book called "Asylum" which is beautiful photographs of all these abandoned, run-down mental facilities across the US (including Danvers, which was in Session 9 and give me the creeps). There is a small story in the beginning of how & why the asylum boom burst years ago and then it's followed by pages & pages of these amazing photos. Well Amazon suggested that I would like "Forbidden Places" and someone in the notes on the book said to check out the photographers website which I did.
http://www.forbidden-places.net/explo1.php
So when telling Bridget about the website that I found I told her what it is that makes me so drawn to these photographs. My epiphany was:
"There is this eerie sense of leftover life that you can feel when you look at them"
I highly recommend taking a few hours and just losing yourself in these pictures. Forbidden Places are all over the world & the site saves me from the Tentanus shots in exploring them on my own...
