Urban Exploration Photography: Discover Hidden Gems

In addition to the fantastic Klebstoff #4 Sticker Magazine, I also just received the third issue of Sebastian Linck’s urban exploration magazine Uebergrund! Like the previous two issues (#1 and #2), this latest photo mag presents urbanex impressions from different cities in Germany and Europe. This time, Uebergrund mainly focuses on the beauty of almost demolished and decaying houses and factory buildings in East-Germany, Darmstadt and Lisbon! More Urban Exploration Photography: Sebastian Linck’s Uebergrund magazine is one of the few German contributions for the international urban exploration scene. If you like to see some more urbex impressions, check out some other photo-taking urban explorers from around the globe! ...

French/German photographers duo Lucie and Simon created with Silent World a great series of deserted places in cities like Paris, New York or Beijing, well-known around the world for the incredible amount of people usually populating public spaces. It seems, the photos capture entirely deserted cities and they make us somehow understand that what makes a city a city is not just the man-made monumental buildings, but the temporary elements within… ...

Stephen Wilkes is not unknown when it comes to astonishing fine art and commercial photography. For more than two decades he has been widely recognized; his photographs can be found in magazines such as Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, Time, Life Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. For his urban photography series Day To Night, Wilkes photographed during one day the same spot over and over again to document the specific daily routine and the places unique flair during day and night. The special thing about those photos is, that Wilkes merged them together in one single image, what allows him to show day and night-time together as it would be one impression! ...

Top of Shard Tower The Shard Tower already dominates London’s skyline and will become Europe’s tallest building when construction work is finished. Nevertheless, some urban explorers (as you could already watch in the Crack The Surface documentary) entered the Shard’s construction site and took some astonishing photographs, as Sky News recently broadcasted… Urbex Photograph: Around the globe, urban explorers discover secret places, document decaying buildings or walk along subway tracks. If you’re interested in the resulting photographs, check out the Top Urban Exploration Photographers! ...

Looks like the Soviets really built an UFO, or at least a building which looks like an RLV, a reusable launch vehicle… According to Timothy Allen the Communist UFO-shaped Buzludzha building (pronounced Buz’ol’ja) in the Balkan Mountains is Bulgaria’s largest ideological monument to Communism which was left to ruin after the revolution in 1989. Nowadays, Buzludzha is still there, icebound, almost forgotten and abandoned, with stories that sound like parts of science fiction classics… ...

The third issue of Sebastian Linck’s self-made urbex photography magazine Uebergrund is coming soon! After issue one (published in 2009) and issue two (published in 2011) I’m really curious to see what impressing locations Sebastian explored this time…I’ll keep you posted. Furthermore, the Uebergrund photography mag finally got an own website, presenting not just insights from the different issues, but also selected shots from the photographers portfolio, what makes it worth to check out now! Those of you, who didn’t ordered their magazine copies yet, should do so in near future for two reasons: ...

Urban exploring becomes more and more popular for young people from the cities around the world, who want to discover hidden places, explore abandoned houses, and climb on the highest buildings in town. Documenting their achievements with often amazing photographs, the urban explorers built up distributed communities (and published urbex guides) in the web for the last years, for what reason even more boys and girls (including me) were influenced to join this movement and to push urbex photography. ...

Urban Exploration Photography is the title of a nice lecture by Neil Ta and a great resource for UrbEx enthusiasts, exploring greenhorns and urban photography beginners! Urban Exploration, Best-Practices The free eBook from 2011, which is written by one of the top urban exploration photographers, gives not just some fantastic insights into this popular leisure-time activity by including dope photos of decaying and neglected buildings, rooftops and more, but also discusses interesting aspects like how and why people are willing to risk their lives by climbing through abandoned areas or why Urbex has a political dimension. ...

Today I have a nice hint for urban explorers or urbex enthusiasts who are fascinated by abandoned architecture: Matt Lambros is a photographer based in New York City, urban explorer and runs the After The Final Curtain blog, a photographic documentation of the effects of years of neglect and decay in some of America’s greatest theaters. What first sounds like a time-consuming obsession is just a great way of preserving and presenting forgotten and lost cultural symbols! ...

Photo Magazine | Do you remember the new urban magazine Uebergrund by Sebastian Linck? A short time after I posted my review, the first issue was almost sold out! Now, the second issue has been published and again Sebastian was so kind to send me his new urban photo mag… In Uebergrund 2 everything is about the underground, for what reason the mag includes nice shots of subway tunnels, basements, catacombs and other dark places in Darmstadt, Lisbon, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Berlin. With this issue, Sebastian is following the trend of urban exploring and created a nice, small work which is a must to have for all who love abandoned places and the underground! ...