Video: Ghost houses: ruined buildings or art?
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We all know about ghosts living in homes. What about the ghosts of the houses themselves? The idea seems absurd, but a number of photographers enthusiastically set about implementing it and, I must say, succeeded. Taking pictures of what was left of the buildings, these people discovered that a ghost lives inside each house, but it becomes visible only after the building collapses.
Photographer Jose Antonio Millan allowed architectural remains to tell their own stories through the impression that decorative and structural elements of surfaces make, along with empty spaces in places where walls once were. He reveals to the public the private places that were once hidden from everyone, showing the remains of tiles and plumbing.
Other photographers, such as Xenmate, find and shoot haunted houses where the walls are masterfully painted by ghostly figures living in their non-existent apartments.
Some, like architecture photographer Marcus Buck, find art in taking photographs of the remains of buildings and finding the relationship between different structures. On the other hand, the photographer treats the images of all the destroyed houses that he finds in the same way, and leaves the viewer the right to decide for himself how these buildings are interconnected.
Of course, abandoned and ruined houses attract more than just professional photographers. Pictures of such buildings have been and will be taken by thousands of people, each time trying to find the mystery hidden by the ghost house, fix it on film and, of course, solve it.
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